Seagate unveils enterprise SSD lineup, finally

Seagate finally made its debut into the SSD (Solid State Drive) space this week with the release of a trio of SSDs. At the moment, the Pulsar family is targeted toward the enterprise and consists of SSDs packing SLC (single-level cell) flash memory. As with practically all SSDs, the new drives come in a 2.5-inch form factor, though with a height of only 7mm. This "z-height" means that two Pulsar drives can be stacked on top of one another and fitted into a 15mm slot in blade servers.

Seagate says the new drives have a random read/write rating of 30,000/25,000 IOPs, or 240/210 Mbps in sequential reads and writes respectively. One point to note is the fact that the Pulsars come with SATA interfaces, which means they are better suited as direct attached storage.

The Pulsars are available in capacities of 200GB, 100GB and 50GB--interesting how Seagate has decided to do away with the tradition of going with capacities aligned around the power of two.

Anyway, the Pulsar SSDs are expected to begin shipping to OEMs next month, and should be available through Seagate's distribution channel in the latter part of 2010. For now, Seagate declined to provide any kind of pricing.

For more on this story:
- check out this article at SearchStorage
- check out this article at Ars Technica

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