Data Sheet
Cheetah® 15K.7
Highest capacity, performance and reliability in 3.5-inch mission-critical storage
600, 450 and 300GB • 15K RPM • 6Gb/s Serial
Attached SCSI • 4Gb/s Fibre Channel
Key Advantages
•Third-generation perpendicular recording delivers up to 600GB.
•Unprecedented performance with sustained data rate of up to 204MB/s—a 16 percent increase over last generation
•Industry’s highest 3.5-inch drive reliability at 1.6-million-hours MTBF
•Seagate PowerTrim™ technology provides a 62 percent improvement in GBs/W at idle over typical 3.5-inch hard drives.
•Read/write advances deliver nonrecoverable error rate of 1x10E16
•Available in 4Gb/s FC or 6Gb/s SAS interfaces (supports SAS 2.0 feature set)
•TCG-compliant Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option cuts IT drive retirement expenses while securely protecting data and is one of the easiest, most cost-effective security measures you can implement.1
•FIPS Self-Encrypting Drive option provides all the benefits of SED and is NIST certified to meet U.S., Canada and U.K. federal data encryption compliance requirements.1, 2
Best-Fit Applications
•Business and transaction processing
•Storage area networks and networked attached storage
•E-mail, decision support, Internet and e-commerce
•Government-grade, data-at-rest security when drives leave your control1
•Drive retirement cost reduction and drive life extension strategies1
1 | Requires TCG-compliant host or controller support. Not available | |
in all countries. | |
2 | See FIPS 140-2 Level 2 Certificate at | |
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents | |
/140-1/1401vend.htm. | FIPS 140-2 INSIDE |
