Cheetah 15K.6 SAS 3-GB/s 300-GB Hard Drive
Description
The Seagate® Cheetah® 15K.6 hard drive enables manageable tiered storage solutions without compromising performance or reliability. Cheetah 15K.6 drives deliver cost-effective solutions, allowing systems to keep up with increasing performance needs over a longer period of time.
Key Advantages
- Second-generation perpendicular recording for maximum 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 or SAS interfaces
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
Specifications
| Hard drive |
| Data transfer rate |
3 Gbit/s |
| Write seek time |
3.9 ms |
| Read seek time |
3.4 ms |
| Average latency |
2 ms |
| HDD number of heads |
6 |
| Mean time between failures (MTBF) |
1600000 h |
| HDD speed |
15000 RPM |
| HDD capacity |
300 GB |
| Features |
| Type |
HDD |
| Interface |
SAS |
| Write seek time |
3.9 ms |
| Read seek time |
3.4 ms |
| Average latency |
2 ms |
| HDD number of heads |
6 |
| Mean time between failures (MTBF) |
1600000 h |
| HDD speed |
15000 RPM |
| HDD capacity |
300 GB |
| Storage drive buffer size |
16 MB |
| Operational conditions |
| Operating temperature (T-T) |
5 - 55 °C |
| Storage temperature (T-T) |
-40 - 70 °C |
| Operating shock |
60 G |
| Non-operating shock |
250 G |
| Technical details |
| Harmonized System (HS) code |
84717050 |
| Interface |
SAS |
| Mean time between failures (MTBF) |
1600000 h |
| Track density |
165 Gbits/inch2 |
| Internal |
Yes |
| Weight & dimensions |
| Width |
101.8 mm |
| Weight |
694 g |
| Height |
26.1 mm |
| Depth |
147 mm |
| Other features |
| Interface |
SAS |
| Track density |
165 Gbits/inch2 |
| Data transfer rate |
3 Gbit/s |
| Internal |
Yes |