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Cheetah® Hard Drive Family

Seagate® Cheetah® drives are the standard for 3.5-inch 10K-RPM and 15K-RPM hard drives used in mission-critical server and storage solutions, where system availability and reliability are of utmost importance.

Seagate® Cheetah® drives are the standard for 3.5-inch 10K-RPM and 15K-RPM hard drives used in mission-critical server and storage solutions where system availability and reliability are of utmost importance. With PowerTrim™ technology, you can achieve up to a 40 percent improvement in IOPS/watt performance.

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 and real-time commerce infrastructure computing. 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, Ultra320 SCSI, 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 125 MB/s
Seek times as fast as 3.5 ms
Highest reliability rating in the industry
5-year limited warranty

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.

Cheetah® NS

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.

Good For

Network and Direct Attached Storage.

Cheetah® 15K.6 and Cheetah® FDE Hard Drives

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. .

Good For

Network Attached Storage and Storage Area Networks

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Cheetah® Hard Drive Family

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