Datasheet

Cheetah 15K.5

Mainstream enterprise disc drive storage

300, 146 and 73GB—15K RPM—Ultra320 SCSI, 3 Gbit/sec Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and

4 Gbit/sec FC

The Best

Price/Performance,

Lowest Cost of

Ownership Disc Drive

Key Advantages

• Perpendicular recording is fundamentally superior, enabling 300GB

capacity with 30 percent higher performance.

• Cheetah 15K.5

is the first drive to break the 100-Mbyte sustained

transfer rate barrier, delivering up to 125 Mbyte/sec.

• Fastest and most reliable Cheetah 15K ever

• 30 percent more IOPS and more than 20 percent faster response times

than 3.5-inch 10K drives

• Enables higher performance with fewer drives, reducing supporting

infrastructure, maintenance and space needs, while increasing system

reliability

• Highest reliability of any 3.5-inch drive in the industry, designed for

demanding 24x7 enterprise applications

• Reduces RAID rebuild times while minimizing reliability risks

• Nonrecoverable Error Rate has been improved by a factor of 10.

Best-Fit Applications

All mainstream enterprise applications, such as:

• E-mail

• Business processing

• Transaction processing

• Decision support

• Storage Area Networks (SAN)

• Networked Attached Storage (NAS)

• Internet and e-commerce

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Cheetah 15K.5 Mainstream enterprise disc drive storage The Best Price/Performance, Lowest Cost of Ownership Disc Drive 300, 146 and 73GB—15K RPM—Ultra320 SCSI, 3 Gbit/sec Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and 4 Gbit/sec FC Key Advantages Best-Fit Applications • Perpendicular recording is fundamentally superior, enabling 300GB capacity with 30 percent higher performance. All mainstream enterprise applications, such as: ® • E-mail • Cheetah 15K.
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Cheetah 15K.5 Mainstream enterprise disc drive storage Lowest Cost of Ownership • Fifth-generation Cheetah 15K is the fastest, highest capacity and most reliable ever. Specifications 300GB1 • Cheetah 15K performance and reliability enable lower TCO for a wide variety of enterprise applications.