Drive promises 1.2 million hours before failure
Drive promises 1.2 million hours before failure
Jul 27, 2005: Western Digital claims that it has released the most reliable enterprise serial ATA hard drive in the world, which it claims has been reliability-rated at 1.2 million hours mean time between failure in high duty cycle environments.
It believes that this system will satisfy the growing demand by organisations for high capacity and reliable storage.
According to WD, the WD Caviar RE2 hard drives have a feature called Time Limited Error Recovery, which maximises its reliability in the enterprise by coordinating error handling with RAID controllers to help prevent drive fallout caused by extended desktop hard drive error-recovery processes.
Richard Rutledge, the vice president and general manager of WD's computing component group, said that the transition of enterprise infrastructure to serial interfaces is accelerating due to the proven maturity of SATA and the emerging deployment of SAS (Serial Attached SCSI).
"Building on the market adoption of WD Caviar RE and WD Raptor, the next-generation WD Caviar RE2 400 GB demonstrates our unique ability to deliver what our enterprise customers demand: high capacity, reliability, performance and advanced features."
Joe Leader, the senior director of channel marketing and business developments for LSI Logic storage adapters, added that WD Caviar RE2 400GB represents a significant milestone in the development of the blended SAT-SAS enterprise architecture.
"For the first time, SAS offers a storage ecosystem that interconnects seamlessly with next-generation SATA hard drives. "
He added that the highly reliable, high capacity WD Caviar RE2 is an exceptional complement to LSI Logic's MegaRAID SATA 300-8X and MegaRAID SAS products.
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