Seagate Pulsar SSD — A first from Seagate
Though solid state drives are yet to replace traditional hard disk drives in mainstream computers, they’re pretty common. In fact as of now there are countless machines boasting the faster storage solution. And now couple of years down the introduction of first solid state drive, Seagate announced its first SSD product. Dubbed as Pulsar, it is the “first true enterprise-class SSD from the world’s #1 enterprise storage supplier.”
Designed for enterprise blade and general server applications, the Pulsar drive uses single-level cell (SLC) technology, delivers up to 200GB capacity, and is built in a 2.5-inch small form factor with a SATA interface.
It achieves a peak performance of up to 30,000 read IOPS and 25,000 write IOPS, 240MB/s sequential read and 200 MB/s sequential write.
Seagate began shipping Pulsar units to select OEMs for revenue in September 2009.
No word on pricing.
