Original URL: http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/08/28/pillar_2tb_sata/
Pillar first past 2TB post
Doubles SATA drive capacity
Posted in Enterprise, 28th August 2009 08:41 GMT
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Pillar Data is the first manufacturer to incorporate 2TB SATA drives in its arrays, doubling the Axiom product's capacity.
CEO Mike Workman says the firm is using Western Digital's [1] 5400rpm 2TB drive. Pillar was also the first array manufacturer to use 1TB drives, which came from Hitachi GST. Array subsystem manufacturer Xyratex [2] qualified 2TB drives recently, for its OEM customers, but Pillar is the first to ship them to end users.
An all-SATA Axiom 600 could previously scale to 832TB; it can now grow to 1.624PB with the 2TB drives. Customers get twice as much data per drive and lower power consumption per GB. Workman blogs [3]: "If we moved 50,000 PB stored on 1TB disk to half the number of 2TB spindles, we could save the world more than $100M a year in energy costs."
We're in a 2TB transition time and can expect other array manufacturers to fairly quickly follow Pillar's lead. ®