CeBIT : Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 Posted on 05/03/2008 at 02:15 by Nicolas
- source: Seagate
At the CeBIT, Seagate has just announced that this month it would deliver the first of its 6th generation of Cheetah drives. You may recall, these are professional 15 000 rpm 3"1/2 drives from Seagate which first made an appearance in early 2000.
While for the 15K.5, there are versions planned with a Serial Attached SCSI or Fiber Channel interface, models supporting Ultra320 SCSI do not seem to be in the works. For capacity, it’s a question of 145, 300 and 450 GB. Equipped with 16 MB of cache, it offers interesting performances as its creator announces a transfer rate as high as 164 MB /s versus 125 MB /s for its predecessor.
As for power consumption, Seagate mentions a 61% improvement in terms of watt per GB in idle thanks to PowerTrim technology without any other precisions. Finally, MTBF is announced at 1.6 million hours while the warranty is still limited to 5 years.
At the CeBIT, Seagate has just announced that this month it would deliver the first of its 6th generation of Cheetah drives. You may recall, these are professional 15 000 rpm 3"1/2 drives from Seagate which first made an appearance in early 2000.