We are still waiting for the next generation Serial ATA interface for the desktop market. Seagate has now presented a new harddrive with a new storage interface it’s for servers and workstations using the SAS 2.0 standard. Cheetah 15K.7 comes with 600GB storage capacity and the SCSI equivalent to SATA, SAS, where version 2.0 is the latest specification that supports up to 6Gbps transfer rates, just like SATA 6Gbps.
Cheetah 15K.7 can also use fiber channels for up to 4Gb/s transfer, and the 15000 RPM and 16MB cache will make the new Cheetah models the fastest SAS harddrive on the market.
As the highest performing, highest capacity 3.5-inch mission critical hard drive with best-in-class reliability for Tier 1 environments, the Cheetah 15K.7 drive is ideal for a wide range of server and storage applications. With the Cheetah 15K.7 hard drive, Seagate’s technology leadership moves firmly past the competition as it delivers the industry’s first 15K-rpm drive to reach the 600GB capacity point while providing record reliability of 1.6 million hours MTBF.
With PowerTrim support Cheetah 15K.7 will offer up to 40% higher IOPS/watt performance and with sustained transfer rates up to 150MB/s, and 3.5ms response times, it really lines up one impressive specification after another.
