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Seagate Cheetah 15K drives offer the high performance, increased capacity and optimized power consumption needed by enterprises to meet demanding Tier 1 enterprise requirements.
Key Features and Benefits:
- Delivers high performance with sustained data rates up to 171MB/s*
- Offers high capacity (up to 600GB) with third-generation perpendicular recording*
- Includes Seagate PowerTrim™ technology to dynamically reduce power usage*
- Supports 6GB/s SAS 2.0, 4GB/s FC, and Ultra320 SCSI interfaces*
- Includes advanced read/write technology for an unrecoverable error rate of 1x10E16 and an annualized failure rate (AFR) of 0.55 percent
- Provides TCG-compliant, Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) security option (SAS models only) to eliminate the need to overwrite or physically destroy drives, enable safe return of drives for warranty or expired lease purposes and allow organizations to securely repurpose or sell hard drives**
* Select models only
** Not available in all countries. Requires TCG-compliant host or controller.
Cheetah 15K.7 SAS 2.0 6-Gb/s 600-GB Hard Drive with Secure Encryption
ST3600957SS
| Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Model Number | ST3600957SS |
| Interface | 6-Gb/s SAS |
| Cache | 16MB |
| Capacity | 600GB |
| Areal density (avg) | 225Gb/in2 |
| Guaranteed Sectors | 1,172,123,568 |
| PHYSICAL | |
| Height | 26.10mm (1.028 in) |
| Width | 101.85mm (4.010 in) |
| Length | 146.99mm (5.787 in) |
| Weight (typical) | 686g (1.51 lb) |
| PERFORMANCE | |
| Spin Speed | 15,000 RPM |
| Average latency | 2.0ms |
| Random read seek time | 3.4ms |
| Random write seek time | 3.9ms |
| I/O data transfer rate | 600MB/s |
| Unrecoverable read errors | 1 in 1016 |
| RELIABILITY | |
| MTBF | 1,600,000 hours |
| Annual Failure Rate | 0.55% |
| POWER | |
| Average idle power | 11.68W |
| Average operating power | 16.35W |
| Maximum start current, AC | 3.88 |
| Maximum start current, DC | 1.91 |
| ENVIRONMENT | |
| Ambient Temperature | |
| Operating | 5°–55°C |
| Nonoperating | -40°–70°C |
| Shock | |
| Operating Shock (max) | 60 Gs for 2ms |
| Nonoperating Shock (max) | 300 Gs for 2ms |
| ACOUSTICS | |
| Acoustics (Idle Volume) | 3.6 bels |
| Features | |
| Storage Type | HDD |
| Encryption |  |
