Seagate Shipping Cheetah 15K.6 Enterprise HDDs

Seagate
Technology will begin shipping its new Cheetah 15K.6 hard drive this month. Designed for the world’s most demanding
enterprise storage environments, the Cheetah 15K.6 drive is Seagate’s highest-
performance hard drive ever in a 3.5-inch form factor, with a 28% increase in
sustained data transfer rates compared to previous generations. With this new
performance on tap, the Cheetah 15K.6 drive remarkably consumes significantly
less power, using up to 61% less energy in both idle and operational modes.

Major OEM system builders including HP are working to design in the new
Cheetah equipped with its leading Fibre Channel interface for HP’s SAN storage
systems. "HP’s Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA), incorporating Seagate’s latest
Cheetah 15K.6 drive, will fulfill the needs of our most demanding customers
running mission-critical business applications," said Kyle Fitze, director,
StorageWorks SAN Marketing, at HP. "The improvements in performance,
reliability, power savings, and capacity will collectively help enable our own
EVA systems to deliver greater overall value to our customers."

The Cheetah 15K.6 drive also ships in Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), which
has become the mainstream enterprise interface of choice for companies
including Super Micro Computer, Inc. "Many of our customers require top-of-
the-line performance and system efficiency," said Charles Liang, CEO and
president of Supermicro. "Integrating Seagate’s Cheetah 15K.6 drive into our
85%+ high-efficiency, earth-friendly SuperServers and Server Building
Block Solutions delivers not only superior performance, but also power
savings, scalability and significantly reduced TCO."

About the Cheetah 15K.6 drives
Using second-generation perpendicular recording technology and available
in capacities of 450GB, 300GB, and 147GB, the new Cheetah 15K.6 drive provides
an unprecedented blend of storage capacity and performance. Add to this the
highest 3.5-inch hard drive reliability in the industry at 1.6 million hours
MTBF (0.55% AFR), a choice of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Fibre Channel (FC)
interfaces, and a 5-year warranty, and the Cheetah 15K.6 drive becomes the
clear drive of choice for 3.5-inch SAN, NAS, and other transactional
processing and internet applications.

The Cheetah 15K.6 drive includes Seagate PowerTrim technology which
dynamically optimizes drive power consumption at all levels of activity. With
PowerTrim technology, the Cheetah 15K.6 drive delivers the highest
performance in its class without increasing power consumption. The Cheetah
15K.6 drive lowers idle and operational power requirements from its prior
generation – as much as 61% in watts/GB – while increasing overall sustained
data transfer rates by 28% at 164MB/sec.

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