The need for greater storage performance density while keeping power consumption and heat relatively low was a challenge that Seagate met back in 2003 with a move to the form factor drives for enterprise systems. Today Seagate continues leading the same market by announcing the world’s fastest hard drive - the Savvio 15K drive.

The new 15K-rpm is the latest addition to the Savvio line of 2.5-inch SCSI drives and provides an enterprise level storage solution with a seek time that’s 12% faster than any other drive. Seagate claims to provide this speed with a 30% drop in power consumption from their 3.5-inch drive and maintaining high reliability with a 1.6 million hour Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF).

“Seagate is committed to delivering solutions that will meet the needs of today’s demanding IT environment, and no product demonstrates this …

Have you ever bought a used PC or used hard drive and found someone else’s old data on it? Or worse yet, have you ever sold or lost a hard drive not being completely sure your data was erased before hand? This among other issues requiring an increased level of security has prompted Seagate to unveiled their DriveTrust security software. The technology will come built into the Momentus 5400 FDE.2 and the DB35 series hard drive and will encrypt the data on the drive without requiring external software or hindering the hard drive performance.

There are multiple situations that cause hard drive security to become and important issue, and having the encryption easily and cost-effectively implemented will improve the overall level of security with sensitive information. Everything from your own personal family pictures and financial information to health care organizations …