According to Tom’s Hardware, Seagate has a new smaller form factor with their hard drives using the the UltraSCSI interface that offers great Enterprise-Level Storage capacity. Personally, Seagate drives are really not my thing. Then again, I am pretty darn product loyal to specific brands.

At first blush, the Seagate Savvio ST973401LC’s form factor stands out as an undersized hard drive with an UltraSCSI interface. However, it won’t stay like that for long, because Seagate is planning to launch versions for SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) and Fibre Channel in the near future too. In addition to their slim dimensions, the new drives are billed as being far better than the old 3.5″ models. We set out to learn more.

The new Savvio series offers everything that a fast drive needs: 10,000 rpm - a novelty for 2.5 inch drives - 8 MB buffer memory and search times quoted at a mere 4.1 ms.