The Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 hard drive enables manageable tiered storage solutions without compromising performance or reliability. Cheetah 15K.6 drives deliver cost-effective solutions, allowing systems to keep up with increasing performance needs over a longer period of time.
Key Advantages
- Second-generation perpendicular recording for maximum capacity
- Unprecedented performance with a 28 percent increase in sustained data rate, up to 164 MB/sec.
- Industrys highest 3.5-inch drive reliability at 1.6-million-hours MTBF.
- Seagate proprietary PowerTrim technology provides a 61 percent improvement in watts/GB at idle.
- Advanced read/write technology delivers unrecoverable error rate of 1x10-16
- Available in FC or SAS interfaces
Best-Fit Applications
All mainstream enterprise applications, such as:
- Email
- Business processing
- Transaction processing
- Decision support
- Storage area networks
- Networked attached storage
- Internet and e-commerce
| Specifications |
146GB |
| Model Number |
ST3146356SS |
| Interface |
SAS 3Gb/s |
| Cache |
16 MBytes |
| Capacity |
146GB |
| Areal density (avg) |
165 Gbits/inch2 |
| PHYSICAL |
|
| Height (max) |
26.11 mm (1.028 inches) |
| Width (max) |
101.85 mm (4.010 inches) |
| Length (max) |
146.99 mm (5.787 inches) |
| Weight (typical) |
674 grams (1.487 pounds) |
| PERFORMANCE |
|
| Spindle Speed |
15,000 rpm |
| Average latency |
2.0 msec |
| Random read seek time |
3.4 msec |
| Random write seek time |
3.9 msec |
| RELIABILITY |
|
| MTBF |
1,600,000 hours |
| Annual Failure Rate |
0.55% |
| POWER |
|
| Maximum start current, AC |
3.88 amps |
| Maximum start current, DC |
1.67 amps |