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Cheetah® 15K.7 Hard Drives

The Seagate® Cheetah® 15K.7 drive reduces costs with the highest performance, capacity and reliability for 3.5-inch Tier 1 requirements.

Model ST3600057FC Fibre Channel 4 Gb/s 600GB

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The higher performance and capacity of Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 drives reduce storage costs per GB and increase capacity per watt. The drive has the industry’s highest reliability rating, reducing drive replacement costs. The Cheetah 15K.7 drive includes Seagate PowerTrim™ technology, which dynamically optimises drive power consumption at all levels of activity.

Key Features and Benefits

  • Highest-performance 3.5-inch Tier 1 drive
  • Highest-capacity Tier 1 drive (600 GB)
  • Highest reliability rating in the industry
  • Seagate PowerTrim technology dynamically reduces power usage
  • Supports 6-Gb/s SAS 2.0 and 4-Gb/s FC

Additional information about the Cheetah 15K.6 drive is available on the Product Overview below.

The Seagate® Cheetah® 15K.7 is the highest performing, highest capacity 3.5-inch mission-critical hard drive with best-in-class reliability for Tier-1 storage environments. This industry-leading enterprise drive reduces storage costs per GB while increasing capacity per watt. Drive power consumption is dynamically optimised at all levels of activity with Seagate's exclusive PowerTrim™ technology. Cut IT drive retirement costs.

Key Advantages

  • Third-generation perpendicular recording for maximum capacity
  • Unprecedented performance with a 16 per cent increase in sustained data rate over the last generation, up to 171 MB/s
  • The industry’s highest 3.5-inch drive reliability at 1.6 million hours MTBF
  • Seagate exclusive PowerTrim™ technology provides up to 21 per cent improvement over the last generation in watts/GB at idle
  • Advanced read/write technology delivers an unrecoverable error rate of 1x10E16 and an AFR of 0.55%
  • Available in 4Gb/s FC or 6Gb/s SAS interfaces

Best-fit Applications

All mainstream enterprise applications, such as:

  • Email
  • Business processing
  • Transaction processing
  • Decision support
  • Storage area networks
  • Networked attached storage
  • Internet and e-commerce

Cheetah 15K.7 FC 4-Gb/s 600-GB Hard Drive

ST3600057FC

Specifications
Model Number ST3600057FC
Interface Fibre Channel 4 Gb/s
Cache 16MB
Capacity 600 GB
Areal density (avg) 225 Gbits/inch2
Guaranteed Sectors 1,172,123,568
PHYSICAL
Height (max) 26.10 mm (1.028 inches)
Width (max) 101.85 mm (4.010 inches)
Length (max) 146.99 mm (5.787 inches)
Weight (typical) 800 grammes (1.76 pounds)
PERFORMANCE
Spindle Speed 15,000 rpm
Average latency 2.0 msec
Random read seek time 3.4 msec
Random write seek time 3.9 msec
RELIABILITY
MTBF 1,600,000 hours
Annual Failure Rate 0.55%
POWER
Maximum starting current, AC 3.73 amps
Maximum starting current, DC 1.93 amps

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