Xyratex Integrated Seagate's Savvio Drives

HAVANT, U.K. -- Xyratex Ltd. (Nasdaq: XRTX), leading provider of enterprise-class data storage subsystems and storage process technology today announced support for Seagate's Savvio(R) 15K.2 and Savvio(R) 10K.3 SFF enterprise hard disk drives. Seagate Savvio 2.5 inch hard drives have been fully integrated into Xyratex's OneStor SP1224s, 2U 24 drive storage system, making it the industry's first, fully integrated external storage subsystem to deliver the highest-performing, most energy efficient drives available for enterprise storage systems.

"Xyratex and Seagate are committed to meeting the key data center requirements of reduced power consumption and improved system performance with Small Form Factor hard drives," said Carla Kennedy, vice president of enterprise PLM, Seagate. "In addition to delivering the highest performance and largest capacity SFF drives in the industry, these new drives enable new levels in system efficiency when the market needs it most, are available from Seagate and Xyratex."

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