Seagate Technology announced its Cheetah 15K.5 hard drive, the latest
generation of Seagate's 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 15K drive, a Seagate statement
said.
Available with up to 300 gigabytes capacity and 30 percent 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.” The
statement added that 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 percent.
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.
CyberMedia News New Delhi, April 28, 2006