Key Features and Benefits

• 16-MB cache
• 10K-RPM spin speed
• Highest reliability rating in the world0.55 percent AFR for mission-critical, 24x7, online applications
• Small size, enabling RAID 5 or mirroring with hot spares in 1U systems
• 5-year warranty

Applications

• Blade servers
• 1U servers
• Midrange and high-end servers
• Direct attached (JBOD/RAID) storage
• Rack-optimized servers and storage arrays
• Space-constrained specialty applications
• High-performance computing
• Data streaming and warehousing
• Decision support systems (data mining, visualization, analysis)
• Internet and e-commerce (HTTP, WAP, XML traffic management)
• Application servers (ERP, CRM, SCM, EAI middleware)
• OTLP (online transactional processing)
• Collaboration (Groupware, email, e-learning, messaging, calendar)
• Engineering/scientific analysis (CAD/CAM, data/image analysis)

Specifications	146GB
Model Number	ST9146802SS
Interface	SAS 3Gb/s
Cache	16 MBytes
Capacity	146GB
Guaranteed Sectors	286,749,488
PHYSICAL
Height (max)	14.8 mm (0.583 inches)
Width (max)	70 mm (2.76 inches)
Length (max)	100.5 mm (3.957 inches)
Weight (typical)	227 grams (0.50 pounds)
PERFORMANCE
Spindle Speed	10,000 rpm
Average latency	3.0 msec
RELIABILITY
Annual Failure Rate	0.55%
ACOUSTICS
Acoustics (Idle Volume)	3.1 bels