Seagate Constellation 500-GB SED ST9500431SS Fiche De Données

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ST9500431SS
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Constellation
2.5-inch Tier 2/nearline drive 
with the lowest enterprise power usage
Data Sheet 
500 GB and 160 GB 
 7200 RPM 
 SAS 6Gb/s,  
SAS 3Gb/s, SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s 
Key Advantages
  Industry’s first 2.5-inch, 15-mm enterprise-class nearline drive for dense, 
space-constrained data centers
  Lowest operating power and enhanced PowerChoice
 host-selectable 
power options for unprecedented power savings (up to 54 percent—as low 
as 1.1 W) during slow or idle periods
  The industry’s highest-reliability 7200-RPM drive, designed for 24x7 
operation
  Best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance ensures unrivalled performance 
in high spindle-density applications, and multi-drive firmware maximizes 
system availability.
  Choose SAS for the seamless Tier 2 enterprise experience, with improved 
data integrity. SAS 2.0 enables faster data access (6Gb/s) and larger 
topologies over greater distances, increasing system scalability, data 
throughput and connectivity.
  Government-grade Self-Encrypting Drive security available on SAS 
models.
Best-Fit Applications
  Storage-hungry business applications
  Storage area networks (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS)
  Maximum-capacity servers and blade servers
  Rich media content storage—audio, video, image
  Reference and compliance data storage
  Enterprise backup and restore—D2D, virtual tape
  Collaboration—email, messaging
  Infrastructure—Web, print, file