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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.

Model ST3450856FC Fibre Channel 4Gb/s 450GB

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Key Advantages

  • Second-generation perpendicular recording delivers up to 450-GB capacity.
  • Unprecedented performance with a 28 percent increase in sustained data rate, up to 164 MB/sec.
  • Industry’s highest 3.5-inch drive reliability at 1.6-million-hours MTBF.
  • Seagate proprietary PowerTrim™ technology provides a 61 percent improvement in watts/GB at idle.
  • Advanced read/write technology delivers unrecoverable error rate of 1x10-16 
  • Available in FC interface

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

Key Features and Benefits

  • Second-generation perpendicular recording delivers up to 450-GB storage
  • Unprecedented performance with a sustained data rate up to 164 MB/sec
  • The industry’s highest 3.5-inch drive reliability at 1.6 million hours MTBF
  • Advanced read/write technology drives an error rate of 1x10E-16
  • PowerTrim™ technology provides best-in-class IOPS/watt
  • Integrated data integrity provisions protect against system miscompare errors
  • Supports T10 end-to-end data protection for new system development

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Cheetah 15K.6 FC 4-GB/s 450-GB Hard Drive

ST3450856FC

Specifications
Model Number ST3450856FC
Interface Fibre Channel 4Gb/s
Cache 16MB
Capacity 450GB
Areal density (avg) 165Gb/in2
Guaranteed Sectors 879,097,968
PHYSICAL
Height 26.11mm (1.028 in)
Width 101.85mm (4.010 in)
Length 146.99mm (5.787 in)
Weight (typical) 709g (1.563 lb)
PERFORMANCE
Spindle Speed 15,000 RPM
Sustained data transfer rate 171,000Mb/s
Average latency 2.0ms
Random read seek time 3.4ms
Random write seek time 3.9ms
I/O data transfer rate 400MB/s
Unrecoverable read errors 1 in 1016
RELIABILITY
MTBF 1,600,000 hours
Annual Failure Rate 0.55%
POWER
Maximum start current, AC 4.21
Maximum start current, DC 1.89
ENVIRONMENT
Ambient Temperature
Operating 5°–55°C
Nonoperating -40°–70°C
Maximum operating temperature change 20°C per hour
Maximum nonoperating temperature change 20°C per hour
Shock
Operating Shock (max) 25 Gs for 2ms
Nonoperating Shock (max) 300 Gs for 2ms
ACOUSTICS
Acoustics (Idle Volume) 3.5 bels
Acoustics (Seek Volume) 3.7 bels

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