Seagate Updates Pulsar, Savvio and Constellation Enterprise Products

March is fast turning out to be one of the more interesting months for storage. Last week, Western Digital announced its intent to purchase Hitachi, and earlier this week, OCZ Technology came out of left field with an acquisition of Indilinx. Today? Seagate unveils not one, not two, but four updated enterprise product lines.

On the solid-state side of things, Seagate has introduced two “Pulsar” SSDs, the Pulsar XT.2 and Pulsar.2. The “XT”, as you’d expect, is the higher-end of the two models, and features SLC NAND, while the non-XT variant settles with MLC. According to Seagate, the XT.2 is designed to handle 25 petabytes (25,000TB) worth of data transfer over its life, while the .2 almost halves that at 15 petabytes (15,000TB).

Although no detailed performance information seems to be available for the .2, the XT.2 boasts random read performance of 48K IOPS and random write performance of 22K IOPS. For sequential reads, we have 360MB/s, and for writes, we have 300MB/s. These speeds are made possible with either a SATA 3.0 or SAS port.

Also introduced are updated Savvio 2.5″ mechanical drives of the 15,000 RPM variety. These are designed to give Seagate’s enterprise customers a good amount of storage and performance, without the high costs associated with SSDs. Of course, that decision will hurt performance, but the Savvio 15K.3 still boasts an impressive transfer rate of 202MB/s, which Seagate says is 21% faster than the previous generation.

To help feed the need for what Seagate calls an “optimal balance”, the company has also updated its other higher-end 2.5″ drives, the Savvio 10K.5. Offering the highest density for a mission-critical 2.5″ drive, at 900GB, the Savvio 10K.5 offers a transfer speed of 168MB/s, and will become available for both SAS and 4Gb fibre connections.

Last but not least, another enterprise-level drive has seen a makeover – Constellation. The biggest change is here the raw density, at 3TB. In fact, that’s the only density currently available, and it’s worth nothing that Seagate doesn’t even currently offer that kind of density on its Barracuda line of internal desktop drives. Designed for mass storage and RAID setups, the Constellation ES.2 is sure to be favoured by those who take large amounts of data seriously.

Need even more info on Seagate’s latest drives? Hit up the press release below, or head over to Seagate’s site where all of the product pages are filled to the brim with information and data sheets.