SEAGATE Cheetah 15K.7 300GB SAS 6GB/ s 16MB ST3300657SS
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The higher performance and capacity of Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 drives reduce storage costs per GB and increase capacity per watt. The drive has the industrys highest reliability rating, reducing drive replacement costs. The Cheetah 15K.7 drive includes Seagate PowerTrim technology, which dynamically optimises drive power consumption at all levels of activity.
Key Features and Benefits
- Highest-performance 3.5-inch Tier 1 drive
- Highest-capacity Tier 1 drive (600 GB)
- Highest reliability rating in the industry
- Seagate PowerTrim technology dynamically reduces power usage
- Supports 6-Gb/s SAS 2.0 and 4-Gb/s FC
Additional information about the Cheetah 15K.6 drive is available on the Product Overview below.
The Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 is the highest performing, highest capacity 3.5-inch mission-critical hard drive with best-in-class reliability for Tier-1 storage environments. This industry-leading enterprise drive reduces storage costs per GB while increasing capacity per watt. Drive power consumption is dynamically optimised at all levels of activity with Seagate's exclusive PowerTrim technology. Cut IT drive retirement costs.
Key Advantages
- Third-generation perpendicular recording for maximum capacity
- Unprecedented performance with a 16 per cent increase in sustained data rate over the last generation, up to 171 MB/s
- The industrys highest 3.5-inch drive reliability at 1.6 million hours MTBF
- Seagate exclusive PowerTrim technology provides up to 21 per cent improvement over the last generation in watts/GB at idle
- Advanced read/write technology delivers an unrecoverable error rate of 1x10E16and an AFR of 0.55%
- Available in 4Gb/s FC or 6Gb/s SAS interfaces
Best-fit Applications

- Business processing
- Transaction processing
- Decision support
- Storage area networks
- Networked attached storage
- Internet and e-commerce
Marketing Text | Highest capacity, performance and reliability in 3.5-inch mission-critical storage |
PI Date | Jan 2012 |
Brand Name | Seagate |
Manufacturer Web Site | http://www.seagate.com/ |
Form Factor | 3.5inch |
Product Line | Cheetah |
Product Type | Hard Drive |
Average Latency | 2.0ms |
Cache | 16MB |
Interface | SAS |
Rotational Speed | 15000rpm |
Size | 3.5inch |
Storage Capacity | 300GB |
Depth (mm) | 147.0 |
Height (mm) | 26.1 |
Width (mm) | 101.9 |
Weight (Kg) | 0.7 |
Operating Temperature | 5 to 55°C |
Other Features | * Random read seek time : 3.4ms * Random write seek time : 3.9ms |
Power | 12.92Watt |
Warranty Information | 5 years |