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Key Features and Benefits
- Broad range of capacities—from 36 GB to 600 GB
- 6-Gb/s SAS 2.0, 3-Gb/s SAS, Ultra320 SCSI, and 2-Gb/s and 4-Gb/s Fibre Channel interfaces
- Cheetah drives with PowerTrim technology can deliver up to a 40 percent improvement in IOPS/watt performance.
- RoHS compliant
- Sustained data rates up to 150 MB/s
- Seek times as fast as 3.5 ms
- Highest reliability rating in the industry
- 5-year limited warranty
Cheetah® Product Releases
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Cheetah® 15K.7 Hard Drive
The Seagate® Cheetah® 15K.7 drive reduces costs with the highest performance, capacity and reliability for 3.5-inch Tier 1 hard drive requirements.
Good For:
Network and direct attached storage.
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Cheetah® 15K.7 Hard Drives with Secure Encryption
The seventh-generation Seagate® Cheetah® 15K.7 drive is the second release to include Self-Encrypting Drive security. These drives reduce costs with the highest performance, capacity and reliability for 3.5-inch Tier 1 hard drive requirements.
Good For:
Network and direct attached storage.
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Cheetah® 15K.6 Hard Drives
The sixth-generation Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 has the highest sequential and transactional performance of any 3.5-inch drive in the enterprise market and delivers a 61 percent improvement in watts/GB at idle over the prior generation.
Good For:
Network Attached Storage and Storage Area Networks
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Cheetah® 15K.5 Hard Drives
The fifth-generation Cheetah® 15K.5 enterprise hard drive features innovative perpendicular recording technology, setting new standards for 3.5-inch 15K-RPM drive capacity, performance and reliability.
Good For:
All mainstream enterprise applications.
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Cheetah® 15K.6 Hard Drives with Secure Encryption
The sixth-generation Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 is the world’s first Self-Encrypting Drive with the highest sequential and transactional performance of any 3.5-inch drive in the enterprise market and delivers a 61 percent improvement in watts/GB at idle over the prior generation.
Good For:
Network Attached Storage and Storage Area Networks
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Cheetah® NS.2 10K Hard Drives
The Seagate Cheetah NS.2 drive reduces costs with the lowest-power, highest-capacity (up to 600 GB) and highest-reliability solution for 3.5-inch Tier 1 requirements.
Good For:
Network and direct attached storage.
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Cheetah® NS 10k Hard Drives
The Seagate Cheetah NS 3.5-inch, 10K drive shares the Cheetah 15K.5 design, optimized for storage capacity and power consumption but maintaining better performance than standard 10K enterprise products.
Good For:
Network and Direct Attached Storage.
