Seagate Offers Innovative Perpendicular Recording Technology

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Seagate Technology issues its Cheetah 15K.5 hard drive, the latest generation of Seagate's acclaimed flagship enterprise product line. With a strong family history of record-breaking achievements, 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 15K drive. The Cheetah is available with up to 300 gigabytes capacity.

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%. 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.

The Cheetah 15K.5 is designed and manufactured by the same teams that successfully delivered the past four award-winning generations of Cheetah 15K. Its 15K RPM and fast seek times deliver the fastest time-to-data, resulting in 30 percent more I/O's-per-second and more than 20 percent faster response times than typical 3.5-inch 10K RPM drives.

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

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