Seagate 15K.5 - Cheetah - Hard Drive Datasheet

Data Sheet
Cheetah
®
Mainstream enterprise hard drive storage
300, 146 and 73 GB
3-Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and 4-Gb/s FC
Key Advantages
• Perpendicular recording is fundamentally superior, enabling 300-GB
capacity with 30 percent higher sustained data rate.
• The Seagate Cheetah
® ®
100-MB sustained transfer rate barrier, delivering up to 125 MB/s.
• Fastest and most reliable Cheetah 15K drive 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 minimizing reliability risks
• Nonrecoverable error rate has been improved by a factor of 10.
Best-Fit Applications
All mainstream enterprise applications, such as:
• Email
• Business processing
• Transaction processing
• Decision support
• Storage area networks (SAN)
• Networked attached storage (NAS)
• Internet and e-commerce
15K.5
15K RPM Ultra320 SCSI,
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15K.5 drive is the first drive to break the