Product description

The Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 hard drive enables manageable tiered storage solutions without compromising performance or reliability. This Cheetah 15K.6 drive delivers cost-effective solutions, allowing systems to keep up with increasing performance needs over a longer period of time.

From the Manufacturer

The Seagate® Cheetah® 15K drive delivers the highest capacity (up to 600 GB) of any mission-critical drive, reduces storage costs per GB and increases capacity per watt. Featuring PowerTrim™ technology, it dynamically optimizes drive power consumption. With the highest reliability rating, it's available with a 6-Gb/s SAS or 4-Gb/s FC interface. The highest-performing 3.5-inch drive, it reduces RAID rebuild times while minimizing reliability risks. Ideally suited for use in network storage applications, the Cheetah 15K drive is SAS 2.0-compliant and offers a Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option providing government-grade security and instant secure erase for drives repurposed or returned for expired lease, repair or warranty.*

*Requires TCG-compliant host or controller support

Seagate® Cheetah® 15K Hard Drives

What the experts are saying...

Best performance, highest capacity drives with field-proven reliability for mission-critical 3.5-inch Tier 1 enterprise environments. Seagate Cheetah 15K drives offer the high performance, increased capacity, and optimized power consumption that enterprises require for demanding Tier 1 enterprise requirements, including: High-performance and mainstream enterprise servers and external storage - Storage area networks (SAN) - Network attached storage (NAS) - Direct attached storage (DAS) Why Choose the Seagate Cheetah 15K? Delivers unprecedented performance with a sustained data rate of up to 171MB/s-a 16 percent increase over the previous generation Offers the largest capacity of any 3.5-inch Tier 1 drive, with third-generation perpendicular recording Features the industry’s highest reliability rating with an MTBF* of 1.6 million hours Includes Seagate PowerTrim™ technology, dynamically reducing power usage by 21 percent over the previous generation Supports 6GB/s SAS 2.0 and 4GB/s FC Includes advanced read/write technology for an unrecoverable error rate of 1x10E16 and an annualized failure rate (AFR) of 0.55 percent TCG-compliant, Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) security option (SAS models only) eliminates the need to overwrite or physically destroy drives, enables safe return of drives for warranty or expired lease purposes, and allows organizations to securely repurpose or sell hard drives (not available in all countries) * Mean Time Between Failures

“The Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 is a remarkable product, no matter if you see it as an enterprise tool or through the eyes of an enthusiast...” - TweakTown, November 2009 “In conclusion, the Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 SAS drive has demonstrated a dominance over existing Enterprise storage solutions and improved file transfer speeds at the same time as it saves electrical energy costs.” - Benchmark Reviews, October 2009 “So after taking a look at the Seagate Cheetah NS.2 and Cheetah 15K.7 I can say one thing without a doubt, these are two of the fastest hard drives we have seen. In fact the 15K.7 is just short of SSD performance with the reliability that only 53 years of development can give you.” - Lanoc Reviews, October 2009

	“For users looking for the most advanced technology to create new premium systems, or those who are looking to extend the life of their existing systems, the Cheetah® 15K.7 delivers the low TCO and promise of easy integration for businesses of all sizes...” - Joe Cousins, vice president of marketing, Bell Microproducts

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