BIOS: Technology Means Business

Storage needs have grown in scale that are almost unimaginable today as digital content is everywhere in our daily lives.

From traditional computers, to devices in the home such as personal video recorders, to handheld devices like portable music players or mobile phones, it is critical that enterprise storage on the back end is optimised to work in these demanding environments with high availability and performance.

Seagate Technology has announced its Cheetah 15K.5 hard disk drive (HDD), the latest generation of Seagate’s flagship 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 15000rpm drive.

Available with up to 300GB 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. 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.

The Cheetah 15K.5 is designed and manufactured by the same teams that successfully delivered the past generations of Cheetah 15K. Its 15000rpm and fast seek times deliver the fastest time-to-data, resulting in 30 per cent more I/Os-per-second and more than 20 per cent faster response times than typical 3.5-inch 10000rpm drives.

The Cheetah 15K.5 is available in a choice of 3Gbit/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Ultra320 SCSI, and 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel interfaces with capacities of 73-, 147-, and 300GB. It delivers an industry-leading Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) reliability rating of 1.4 million hours at full duty cycle.

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.

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