Seagate ST3146855LC Cheetah 15K.5 Product Overview - Page 1

Product Overview Cheetah 15K.5 Best price/performance, lowest cost of ownership disc drive 300, 146 and 73GB • 15K RPM • Ultra320 SCSI 3 Gbit/sec SAS • 4 Gbit/sec FC Key Features and Benefits • Perpendicular recording is fundamentally superior, delivering 300GB capacity with 30 percent faster sequential performance and the highest reliability rating of any 3.5-inch drive in the industry. • Enables higher performance with fewer drives, reducing supporting infrastructure, maintenance and space needs while boosting system reliability • 30 percent more IOPS and over 20 percent faster response times than 3.5-inch 10K drives; first drive to break 100-Mbyte sustained transfer rate barrier • Reduces RAID rebuild times while minimizing reliability risk exposure; 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