Seagate ST3600002FC Cheetah NS.2 Product Overview - Page 2

Cheetah® NS.2 Lowest power, highest reliability for 3.5-inch Tier 1 solutions Product Description Seagate Cheetah NS.2 drives reduce costs for 3.5-inch Tier 1 solutions, helping to sustain business. It has up to 600 GB of capacity, which is the highest capacity of any Tier 1 missioncritical drive. This higher capacity reduces storage costs per GB and increases capacity per watt. The drive also includes Seagate PowerTrim technology, which dynamically optimizes drive power consumption at all levels of activity. The Cheetah NS.2 drive has over 20 percent lower power consumption than any 3.5-inch Tier 1 mission-critical drive. The Cheetah NS.2 drive is leveraged from the highly successful Cheetah 15K.6 platform, and has the industry's highest reliability rating, reducing drive replacement costs. The drive is available with a SAS (600 GB and 450 GB) or FC interface. The SAS drives will support 6-Gb/s transfer rates as part of the new SAS 2.0 feature set. SAS 2.0 was developed to provide additional signal and data integrity features to enable SAS to be ideally suited for use in high-end network storage applications. The Cheetah NS.2 drive is the second generation of Cheetah drives available as a Self-Encrypting Drive for designated OEMs, providing government-grade data security and instant secure erase for drives reused, recycled or returned for expired lease, repair or warranty. Specifications Capacity Interface Spindle Speed Reliability Cache Form factor 600, 450 and 300 GB 6-Gb/s SAS 2.0 (600 and 450 GB), 4-Gb/s FC 10,000 RPM 0.55% AFR/1.6M hours MTBF 16 MB 3.5-inch www.seagate.com 1-800-SEAGATE (1-800-732-4283) AMERICAS ASIA / PACIFIC EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA Seagate Technology LLC 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066, United States, 831-438-6550 Seagate Technology International Ltd. 7000 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5, Singapore 569877, 65-6485-3888 Seagate Technology SAS 130-136, rue de Silly, 92773 Boulogne-Billancourt Cedex, France, 33 1-4186 10 00 Copyright © 2009 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 and PowerTrim are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When referring to hard 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. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications. PO0079.2-0901US, January 2009