Astute Networks, a provider of bladed storage offerings, is providing support for the Seagate Savvio 600GB 10K RPM SAS disk drives. The 2.5-inch form factor of the Savvio drives expands the capacity of Astute Networks’ Caspian Edge Storage blades to 3.6 terabytes (TB) of capacity per Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) slot.
The company claims that the Caspian Edge Storage Blade platform is a 10Gb ATCA iSCSI storage blade that provides a foundation for high-performance, sharable, scalable storage capacity. It allows users to implement high-capacity ATCA configurations with the 2.5-inch disks.
According to Astute Networks, the Caspian storage offering can accommodate six drives per ATCA slot (with the optional RTM), resulting in up to 3.6TB of usable capacity. In addition, it is also NEBS (Network Equipment Building System) and Mil-Spec certified for added data.
Keith Klarer, vice president of hardware engineering at Astute Networks, said: The powerful and compact architecture of the 2.5-inch Savvio drives enables us to deliver rack mount storage capacity with all the benefits of ATCA such as deployment simplicity, power and space savings in an open standards architecture.
“In addition, Caspian’s patent-pending, proprietary thermal cooling design ensures operational reliability for high performance media.
