Seagate said Pulsar is the first of a new family of products it plans for tower, rack and blades servers used in business computing. It uses a serial ATA interface and single-level cell NAND flash from an undisclosed supplier.

Pulsar delivers peak performance of up to 30,000 read I/O operations/second and 25,000 write IOPS. It can deliver 240 MBytes/s data for a sequential read and 200 MB/s for a sequential write.

Pulsar has 100 times the IOPS and a sequential access more twice that of an enterprise hard drive, said Seagate spokesman.