Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 FC 300GB Specifications

Cheetah 15K.5
Mainstream enterprise disc drive storage
300, 146 and 73GB—15K RPM—Ultra320 SCSI, 3 Gbit/sec Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and
4 Gbit/sec FC
Key Advantages
• Perpendicular recording is fundamentally superior, enabling
300GB capacity with 30 percent higher performance.
• Cheetah 15K.5 is the first drive to break the 100-Mbyte sustained
®
transfer rate barrier, delivering up to 125 Mbyte/sec.
• Fastest and most reliable Cheetah 15K ever
• 30 percent more IOPS and more than 20 percent faster response
times than 3.5-inch 10K drives
• Enables higher performance with fewer drives, reducing
supporting infrastructure, maintenance and space needs, while
increasing system reliability
• Highest reliability of any 3.5-inch drive in the industry, designed
for demanding 24x7 enterprise applications
• Reduces RAID rebuild times while minimising reliability risks
• Non-recoverable Error Rate has been improved by a factor of 10.
The Best
Price/Performance,
Cost of Ownership
Disc Drive
Best-Fit Applications
All mainstream enterprise applications, such as:
• E-mail
• Business processing
• Transaction processing
• Decision support
• Storage Area Networks (SAN)
• Networked Attached Storage (NAS)
• Internet and e-commerce