Seagate today introduced the Savvio 10K.3 hard drive – the world’s highest-capacity, small profile factor 2.5-inch enterprise hard drive. that latest generation of 2.5-inch drive from Seagate offers 70% lower ability and greater than 60% performance density by traditional 3.5-inch drives. Seagate’s Savvio 10K.3 drive is the industry’s first 2.5-inch self-encrypting enterprise drive with

government-grade Full Disk Encryption (FDE) details protection. The Seagate Savvio 10K.3 drive leads the industry with 300GB of capacity, reliability of 1.6 million hours MTBF, and an advanced SAS 2.0 (6 Gb/sec goods rate) interface.

Major OEM evaluations of the Savvio 10K.3 drive have begun. General product availability is planned for the second half of calendar year 2008.