Seagate 450Gb Cheetah Sas 6Gb/S 16Mb Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Bare Drive (St3450857Ss)

From The Manufacturer The Seagate Cheetah 15K Drive Delivers The Highest Capacity (Up To 600 Gb) Of Any Mission-Critical Drive, Reduces Storage Costs Per Gb And Increases Capacity Per Watt. Featuring Powertrim Technology, It Dynamically Optimizes Drive Power Consumption. With The Highest Reliability Rating, Its Available With A 6-Gb/S Sas Or 4-Gb/S Fc Interface. The Highest-Performing 3.5-Inch Drive, It Reduces Raid Rebuild Times While Minimizing Reliability Risks. Ideally Suited For Use In Network Storage Applications, The Cheetah 15K Drive Is Sas 2.0-Compliant And Offers A Self-Encrypting Drive (Sed) Option Providing Government-Grade Security And Instant Secure Erase For Drives Repurposed Or Returned For Expired Lease, Repair Or Warranty.* *Requires Tcg-Compliant Host Or Controller Support Seagate Cheetah 15K Hard Drives What The Experts Are Saying... Best Performance, Highest Capacity Drives With Field-Proven Reliability For Mission-Critical 3.5-Inch Tier 1 Enterprise Environments. Seagate Cheetah 15K Drives Offer The High Performance, Increased Capacity, And Optimized Power Consumption That Enterprises Require For Demanding Tier 1 Enterprise Requirements, Including: High-Performance And Mainstream Enterprise Servers And External Storage- Storage Area Networks (San)- Network Attached Storage (Nas)- Direct Attached Storage (Das) Why Choose The Seagate Cheetah 15K? Delivers Unprecedented Performance With A Sustained Data Rate Of Up To 171Mb/S-A 16 Percent Increase Over The Previous Generationoffers The Largest Capacity Of Any 3.5-Inch Tier 1 Drive, With Third-Generation Perpendicular Recordingfeatures The Industry S Highest Reliability Rating With An Mtbf* Of 1.6 Million Hoursincludes Seagate Powertrim Technology, Dynamically Reducing Power Usage By 21 Percent Over The Previous Generationsupports 6Gb/S Sas 2.0 And 4Gb/S Fcincludes Advanced Read/Write Technology For An Unrecoverable Error Rate Of 1X10E16 And An Annualized Failure Rate (Afr) Of 0.55 Percenttcg-Compliant, Self-Encrypting Drive (Sed) Security Option (Sas Models Only) Eliminates The Need To Overwrite Or Physically Destroy Drives, Enables Safe Return Of Drives For Warranty Or Expired Lease Purposes, And Allows Organizations To Securely Repurpose Or Sell Hard Drives (Not Available In All Countries) * Mean Time Between Failures The Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 Is A Remarkable Product, No Matter If You See It As An Enterprise Tool Or Through The Eyes Of An Enthusiast... - Tweaktown, November 2009 In Conclusion, The Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 Sas Drive Has Demonstrated A Dominance Over Existing Enterprise Storage Solutions And Improved File Transfer Speeds At The Same Time As It Saves Electrical Energy Costs. - Benchmark Reviews, October 2009 So After Taking A Look At The Seagate Cheetah Ns.2 And Cheetah 15K.7 I Can Say One Thing Without A Doubt, These Are Two Of The Fastest Hard Drives We Have Seen. In Fact The 15K.7 Is Just Short Of Ssd Performance With The Reliability That Only 53 Years Of Development Can Give You. - Lanoc Reviews, October 2009 For Users Looking For The Most Advanced Technology To Create New Premium Systems, Or Those Who Are Looking To Extend The Life Of Their Existing Systems, The Cheetah 15K.7 Delivers The Low Tco And Promise Of Easy Integration For Businesses Of All Sizes... - Joe Cousins, Vice President Of Marketing, Bell Microproducts Seagate Enterprise Family Hard Drives Seagate Constellation Enterprise-Class 2.5-Inch 7200 Rpm Nearline Drive Click Hereseagate Constellation Es Enterprise-Class 3.5-Inch 7200 Rpm Drive Click Hereseagate Savvio 10K Enterprise-Class 2.5-Inch 10,000- Rpm Drive Click Hereseagate Savvio 15K Enterprise-Class 2.5-Inch 15,000- Rpm Drive Click Hereseagate Cheetah 15K Enterprise-Class 3.5-Inch 15,000- Rpm Drive Cheetah 15K Drive Specifications Specifications600 Gb1450 Gb1450 Gb1300 Gb1300 Gb1146 Gb1 Model Number St3600057Ss St3600957Ss2 St3600057Fc St3450857Ss St3450757Ss2 St34508