4.0General description
Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives provide high performance, high capacity data storage for a variety of systems includ- ing engineering workstations, network servers, mainframes, and supercomputers. Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives support
Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives support the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
Cheetah 15K.7 FC SED models have provisions for “Security of Data at Rest” based on the standards defined by the Trusted Computing Group (see www.trustedcomputinggroup.org).
Note. Never disassemble the HDA and do not attempt to service items in the sealed enclosure (heads, media, actuator, etc.) as this requires special facilities. The drive does not contain
Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives use a dedicated landing zone at the innermost radius of the media to eliminate the possibility of destroying or degrading data by landing in the data zone. The heads automatically go to the land- ing zone when power is removed from the drive.
An automatic shipping lock prevents potential damage to the heads and discs that results from movement dur- ing shipping and handling. The shipping lock disengages and the head load process begins when power is applied to the drive.
The drives also use a
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