Seagate 10K.4 ST9450204SS Hoja De Datos

•  World’s highest-capacity SFF drive (up to 600GB) reduces $/GB costs
•  20 percent higher reliability than any other drive available and the industry’s

first 2M-hour MTBF drive to provide 0.44 percent AFR

•  Second-generation 6Gb/s SAS with dual-port communication and first SFF

hard drive with 4Gb/s FC support

•  SFF and low power consumption reduce end-user cooling and energy costs
•  PowerChoice™ feature for T10-compliant power management enables IT

organizations to tailor systems for performance and power consumption.

•  Protection Information (PI) option detects corruption of data in flight between

the host system and the drive.

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•  Head ramp load/unload feature for improved device handling reliability
•  TCG-compliant Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) security option (SAS models

only) eliminates the need to overwrite or physically destroy drives, enables
secure return of drives for warranty or expired lease purposes, and enables
organizations to securely repurpose or sell hard drives.

2

•  FIPS Self-Encrypting Drive option provides all the benefits of SED and is NIST

certified to meet U.S., Canada and U.K. federal data encryption compliance
requirements.

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•  OEMs, system designers and IT organizations can reduce system complexity

and standardize on common form factors, interfaces and security standards.

•  Mainstream enterprise external storage arrays (SAN, NAS, DAS)
•  Power- and/or space-constrained data centers
•  Drive life extension and drive retirement simplification strategies

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1 Protection Information (PI) feature requires PI-compliant host or controller support.

2 Requires TCG-compliant host or controller support. Not available in all countries.

3 See FIPS 140-2 Level 2 Certificate at http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/1401vend.htm.

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