Seagate launches Cheetah 15K.5 hard drives   

NEW DELHI: Seagate

Technology today announced its Cheetah 15K.5 hard drive, the latest

generation of Seagate's

enterprise product line. The new Cheetah 15K.5 drive sets the pace once

again for fulfilling the needs of the enterprise by delivering the world's

fastest performance with the highest reliability and capacity ever offered in a

15K drive, a Seagate statement said.






Available with up to 300 gigabytes capacity and 30 per cent increased
performance, the Cheetah 15K.5 delivers the best price-per-performance in its

class. The Cheetah 15K.5 hard drive enables a lower Total Cost of Ownership

(TCO) for a wide variety of enterprise applications from e-mail, Internet, and

e-commerce, to business processing and decision support.






The Cheetah 15K.5 leveraged Seagate's R&D leadership “to create the
world's first enterprise hard drive with perpendicular recording.” The

statement added that perpendicular recording technology lets the Cheetah 15K.5

deliver twice the capacity of 15K drives currently available while providing a

performance increase over previous generations by as large as 30 per cent.






Seagate
is now shipping the Cheetah 15K.5 to leading OEM Customers. The Cheetah 15K.5

will be launched to the Distribution Channel later this quarter.






The Cheetah 15K.5 is designed and manufactured by the same teams that
successfully delivered the past four award-winning generations of Cheetah 15K.

Its 15K RPM and fast seek times deliver the fastest time-to-data, resulting in

30 percent more I/O's-per-second and more than 20 percent faster response times

than typical 3.5-inch 10K RPM drives.






The Cheetah 15K.5 is available in a choice of 3 Gb/sec Serial Attached SCSI (SAS),
Ultra320 SCSI, and 4 Gb/sec Fibre Channel interfaces with capacities of 73, 147,

and 300 gigabytes. It delivers an industry-leading Mean Time Between Failure

(MTBF) reliability rating of 1.4 million hours at full duty cycle.