Seagate Ships Its Cheetah(R) 15K.6 Hard Drives for the World’s Most Powerful Enterprise Storage Systems
Posted on March 4, 2008
Filed Under Storage, TechShowWIRE
HANOVER, Germany, March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — CeBit — Seagate
Technology (NYSE: STX) announced it will begin shipping its new Cheetah(R)
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(TM) and Server
Building Block Solutions(R) 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(TM) technology which
dynamically optimizes drive power consumption at all levels of activity.
With PowerTrim(TM) 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.
For more information about Seagate’s Cheetah family of products, visit
http://www.seagate.com.
About Seagate
Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and
marketing of hard disc drives, providing products for a wide-range of
applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer
Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate’s business model leverages
technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver
industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers, with the
goal of being the low cost producer in all markets in which it
participates. The company is committed to providing award-winning products,
customer support and reliability to meet the world’s growing demand for
information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at
http://www.seagate.com.
Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks
of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries.
Cheetah and PowerTrim are either trademarks or registered trademarks of
Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United
States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered
trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When referring to
hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one
terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes. Your computer’s operating
system may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower
capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting
and other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage.
Quantitative usage examples for various applications are for illustrative
purposes. Actual quantities will vary based on various factors, including
file size, file format, features and application software. Seagate reserves
the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications.
SOURCE Seagate Technology
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