Seagate, a provider of hard disk drives and storage solutions, announced that Seagate ES.2 1TB SAS (News - Alert) hard drives emerged as the leader in Storage Performance Council (SPC) performance benchmark tests.

 

The Storage Performance Council’s latest SPC-1C and SPC-2C benchmarks aimed at measuring and reporting both random transactional and sequential performance data in real-world environments, and they help system integrators estimate storage component performance, Seagate said.

 

SPC-1C and SPC-2C follow the path of SPC-1 and SPC-2 as the premier industry-wide standard benchmarks for measuring storage components. These tests enable storage component vendors such as Seagate to produce audited benchmark results using the same workloads as SPC-1 and SPC-2 but at a component level, ranging from a single storage device to a small subsystem of 24 devices or less.

 

“The SPC congratulates Seagate on taking a leadership role in releasing the first set of SPC-1C and SPC-2C benchmark results,” said Walter Baker, administrator and auditor for the Storage Performance Council. “As IT budgets face continued constraint, but application client demands continue to soar, SPC-1C and SPC-2C tests will undoubtedly become increasingly important to the entire industry.”

 

The SPC-1C tests, which primarily simulate real-world online transaction processing, showed that the Seagate Barracuda ES.2 hard drive was the only drive capable of achieving 184.37 SPC-1C IOPS, the company said. Seagate’s nearest competitor achieved only 170.04 SPC-1C IOPS.

 

In the SPC-2C tests, which measure sequential performance across a range of environments, Seagate Barracuda ES.2 hard drive set a new benchmark standard by delivering 38 percent greater performance than the nearest competitor.

 

“In real-world applications where running hundreds or thousands of drives is common, these differences ultimately measure up to significant cost savings,” a media statement from the company said.

 

Sherman Black, senior vice president of Marketing and Strategy Core Products Group, said: “We’re especially proud to lead the industry with these new, audited SPC component benchmark results because they clearly show that Seagate’s SAS storage solutions are an ideal pathway to best deliver and serve the needs of IT professionals who may be evaluating SAS vs. SATA in their own enterprise storage environments.”