Cheetah® Hard Drive Family
Seagate Cheetah enterprise-class hard drives offer unrivaled performance, reliability and innovation for enterprise applications. Cheetah hard drives continue to set the standard for e-business computing and real-time commerce infrastructure. The Cheetah drive family is ideal for 3.5-inch mainstream and enterprise storage applications and is an excellent choice for demanding, mission-critical network and server storage environments.
Key Features and Benefits
- Broad range of capacities—from 36 GB to 400 GB
- Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Ultra320 SCSI, 2-Gb/s and 4-Gb/s Fibre channel interfaces
- Sustained data rates up to 125 MB/s
- Seek times as fast as 3.5 ms
- Highest reliability rating in the industry
- 5-year warranty
The Seagate® Cheetah® 10K.7 drive is the seventh generation of this time-honored, 10K-RPM, 3.5-inch product line. The Cheetah 10K.7 drive meets the cost per gigabyte and reliability needs of large-capacity online storage.
Large-capacity storage infrastructures that house mission-critical data.
All mainstream enterprise applications.
The Seagate Cheetah NS shares the Cheetah 15K.5 design, optimized for storage capacity and power consumption but maintaining better performance than standard 10K enterprise products.
Network and Direct Attached Storage.
The sixth-generation Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 is the world's first self-encrypting hard 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. .
Network Attached Storage and Storage Area Networks
- SAS and SATA: Multiple Benefits of Unified Storage (334K, PDF)
- Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
- SAS Resource Center
- SAS System Builder Resource Guide: System builders info on the SCSI to SAS transition
- VAR Delievers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate
