Data Sheet

Ultra-Fast, Consistent Performance Plus 12Gb/s SAS
• Helps remove storage bottlenecks and close the gap
between processor and data access performance
• Delivers the speed and performance consistency
needed for demanding enterprise applications
• Designed to reduce data access wait times under the
most complex, write-intensive workloads
• First SSD to ship in volume with 12Gb/s SAS while ensuring
the highest level of reliability and scalability
• Ensures data availability for critical production systems by
using redundant, failover I/O communication paths
• Helps improve ROI by leveraging existing SAS infrastructures
• Custom-designed controller leverages Seagate enterprise
expertise and manufacturing excellence
• Helps safeguard data against unexpected power loss and
protects data from undetected, unintentional corruption
• Helps ensure data integrity with multiple layers
of I/O error detection and correction
• Strong data security with Self-Encrypting Drive (SED)
and FIPS SED models
1,2
Best-Fit Applications
• Demanding, enterprise applications with complex,
write-intensive and mixed workloads
• IOPS-hungry enterprise applications, such as high-performance
computing, online transaction processing and heavy data analytics
• Enterprise applications that demand high data availability
and integrity as well as interface failover redundancy
• External enterprise storage solutions (SAN, NAS, DAS) and servers
1 Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) and FIPS 140-2 Validated drives are not available in all models or
countries. May require TCG-compliant host or controller support.
2 FIPS 140-2 in review. See FIPS 140-2 Level 2 Certicate at http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/validation.html
Data Sheet
1200 SSD