Seagate ST3600057SSRFS Lowest Cost of Ownership, 600GB1, 450GB1, 300GB1, Highest Reliability

Cheetah® 15K.7

Highest capacity, performance and reliability in 3.5-inch mission-critical storage

Lowest Cost of Ownership			Specifications	600GB1	450GB1	300GB1
	Seventh-generation Seagate® Cheetah 15K.7 drive is the
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			Model Number	ST3600057SS	ST3450857SS	ST3300657SS
	fastest, highest capacity and most reliable ever.
				ST3600957SS2	ST3450757SS2	ST3300557SS2
•	Lower watts/GB ratio helps achieve reduced power and			ST3600857SS3	ST3450657SS3	ST3300457SS3
				ST3600057FC	ST3450857FC	ST3300657FC
	cooling costs while optimizing capacity requirements.			ST3600957FC2, 4	ST3450757FC2, 4	ST3300557FC2, 4
				ST3600857FC3, 4	ST3450657FC3, 4	ST3300457FC3, 4
	Higher performance with fewer drives—reducing support
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			Capacity
	infrastructure, physical space requirements and storage		Formatted 512 KB/Sector (GB)	600	450	300
	management costs		External Transfer Rate (MB/s)
	The highest reliability of any 3.5-inch drive, with increased		4Gb/s Fibre Channel	400	400	400
•			6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI	600	600	600
	system reliability due to the need for fewer drives		Performance
			Spindle Speed (RPM)
				15K	15K	15K
Highest Reliability			Average Latency (ms)	2.0	2.0	2.0
•	Seagate continues to focus on reliability and data		Seek Time Average Read/Write (ms)	3.4/3.9	3.4/3.9	3.4/3.9
			Transfer Rate
	protection. MTBF is an industry-leading 1.6 million hours.		Internal (Mb/s, OD–ID)	1450 to 2370	1450 to 2370	1450 to 2370
•	Seagate-exclusive enhanced Error Correction Code		Sustained (MB/s, 1000 x 1000)	122 to 204	122 to 204	122 to 204
			Cache, Multisegmented (MB/s)	16	16	16
	better maintains performance throughout the life of the
			Configuration/Organization
	drive and reduces the probability of lost data.		Disks/ Heads	4/8	3/6	2/4
•	The third generation of Seagate-exclusive Background		Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read	1 sector per 10E16	1 sector per 10E16	1 sector per 10E16
			Reliability Rating at Full 24x7 Operation
	Media Scan proactively scans the media for potential
			(AFR)	0.55%	0.55%	0.55%
	defects during drive idle time. It enables incipient errors		MTBF (hours)	1,600,000	1,600,000	1,600,000
	to be corrected before data is lost.		Power Management
•	Quick and Robust Download feature loads new firmware		Typical, Fibre Channel (W)	16.31	15.17	13.8
			Typical, SAS (W)	16.35	14.6	12.92
	in seconds, with built-in protection to ensure no
			Power Idle, Fibre Channel (W)	11.61	10.26	8.98
	corruption in the event of a power failure during firmware
			Power Idle, SAS (W)	11.68	10.1	8.74
	switch.
			Environmental
Strong Enough for National Security1			Temperature, Operating (°C)	5 to 55	5 to 55	5 to 55
			Temperature, Nonoperating (°C)	–40 to 70	–40 to 70	–40 to 70
The Cheetah 15K.7 drive is available in SED or FIPS SED			Shock, Operating: 2ms (Gs)	60	60	60
			Shock, Nonoperating: 2ms (Gs)	300	300	300
models; both eliminate the need to overwrite or physically
			Acoustics Idle (bels—sound power)	3.6	3.6	3.6
destroy drives, enable secure return of drives for warranty or
			Vibration, Operating: <400Hz (Gs)	1.0	1.0	1.0
expired lease purposes, and allow organizations to securely
			Vibration, Nonoperating: <400Hz (Gs)	3.0	3.0	3.0
repurpose or sell hard drives. For added physical security
			Encryption
and more stringent regulatory compliance needs, the FIPS			Self-Encrypting Drive Option2, 4	Yes	Yes	Yes
SED model is FIPS 140-2 Validated™ for use with sensitive			FIPS Self-Encrypting Drive Option3, 4	Yes	Yes	Yes
but unclassified or protected (A or B) class data.			Physical
			Height (in/mm)	1.0/25.4	1.0/25.4	1.0/25.4
These Seagate Secure™ models help OEMs and system
			Width (in/mm)	4.0/101.6	4.0/101.6	4.0/101.6
builders gain competitive advantage, differentiate solutions
			Depth (in/mm)	5.76/146.52	5.76/146.52	5.76/146.52
(with strong data security), sell to new customers (that			Weight (lb/kg)	1.51/0.686	1.49/0.676	1.48/0.671
require strong data security), and protect brand equity (and			Warranty
			Limited Warranty (years)	5	5	5
customer confidence).
			1 One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity.
1 Requires TCG-compliant host or controller support. Not available in all countries.
			2 Self-Encrypting Drive model. Requires TCG-compliant host or controller support. Not available in all countries.
			3 FIPS Self-Encrypting Drive model. Requires TCG-compliant host or controller support. Not available in all countries.
			4 Self-Encrypting Drives and FIPS Self-Encrypting Drives are only available in the channel in 6Gb/s SAS.
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© 2010 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in USA. Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Cheetah, PowerTrim and Seagate Secure are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. The FIPS logo is a certification mark of NIST, which does not imply product endorsement by NIST, the U.S., or Canadian governments. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When referring to drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes. Your computer’s operating system may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. The export or re-export of hardware or software containing encryption may be regulated by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (for more information, visit www.bis.doc.gov), and controlled for import and use outside of the U.S. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications. DS1677.3-1007US, July 2010