SSD – Seagate Pulsar

Posted on December 8, 2009 hardlaz

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pulsar_320x340 Pulsar is the name announced by Seagate for their first line Solid state drive (SSD). Pulsar designed to meet OEM performance, it’s a true enterprise solid state drive (SSD) for blade and general server applications.

Seagate Pulsar 2.5″ form factor come with three optional storage capacity 50GB, 100GB, 200GB.

To optimize reliability and endurance, the pulsar SSD support single-level cell (SLC) technology. It also delivers a 0.44% annualized failure rate (AFR) and 5-year limited warranty.With up to 200GB capacity in a 2.5-inch form factor, this powerful drive provides data loss protection upon power failure and has a SATA 3Gb/s interface to support current blade server chipsets.

Key Advantages of Seagate Pulsar:
• Single-level cell (SLC) technology optimizes SSD reliability and endurance
• Up to 200GB capacity in a 2.5-inch form factor and 7mm z-height
• 0.44 percent AFR for high reliability and endurance
• Power loss data protection to help ensure against data loss upon power failure
• 5-year limited warranty
• SATA 3Gb/s interface to support current blade server chipsets
• 30 years of Seagate leadership in meeting enterprise customer requirements
• Leverages industry-leading, global enterprise support
• Industry-leading solid-state storage (SSS) and solid state drive standards development through JEDEC and SNIA

Best-Fit Applications
• Enterprise blade server applications
• General enterprise server applications

Pulsar Spec

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Specifications	200GB¹	100GB¹	50GB¹
Model Number	ST9200011FS	ST9100011FS	ST950011FS
Interface	SATA 3Gb/s
I/O Data Transfer Rate, Max	300MB/s
NAND Flash Type	SLC
Performance, Read/Write IOPS (IOMeter: 4K, Q=32) Peak Sustained(4K aligned writes, zero offset)	30,000/25,00030,000/10,500	30,000/25,00030,000/5300	30,000/25,00030,000/2600
Performance, Bandwidth (IOMeter: 128K, Q=32) Peak Sustained(128K aligned writes, zero offset)	240/220240/160	240/220240/80	240/220 240/40
Product Application Class (JEDEC JC64.8 industry standard)	Enterprise Standard
Annualized Failure Rate (AFR)	0.44%
Bit Error Rate New End of Product Life	<1 sector per 10E16<1 sector per 10E15
Environmental Specs, Temperature Operating (°C) Nonoperating (°C)	5 to 60–40 to 70
Physical Dimensions	0.28-inch x 2.76-inch x 3.96-inch(7.0mm x 70.0mm x 100.5mm)
Compatibility	SATA Rev 2.6, ATA/ATAPI-8, SSD Enhanced SMART ATA features, NCQ, Trim