School System Scores Perfect Grade With SAS Products From Seagate and Promise Technology

With over 45,000 students, the Shelby County, Tenn., school system gets a lot of email traffic–over 49,000 in one day. Seagate® Barracuda® ES.2 SAS drives running in Promise Technology RAID systems give them the speed, capacity and reliability they need to handle those messages. The highest-capacity (up to 1 TB) nearline SAS drive on the market, the enterprise-class Barracuda ES.2 SAS drive delivers up to 135 percent higher performance than its SATA counterpart, as well as up to a 38 percent improvement in IOPS/watt. With an MTBF of 1.2 million hours, the drive offers unrivaled reliability among all 7200-RPM drives. (January 2009)