From the Manufacturer The Cheetah 15K drive delivers the highest capacity (up to 600 GB) of any mission-critical drive, reduces storage costs per GB and increases capacity per watt. Featuring PowerTrim technology, it dynamically optimizes drive power consumption. With the highest reliability rating, it's available with a 6-Gb/s SAS or 4-Gb/s FC interface. The highest-performing 3.5-inch drive, it reduces RAID rebuild times while minimizing reliability risks. Ideally suited for use in network storage applications, the Cheetah 15K drive is SAS 2.0-compliant and offers a Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option providing government-grade security and instant secure erase for drives repurposed or returned for expired lease, repair or warranty.* *Requires TCG-compliant host or controller support Cheetah 15K Hard Drives What the experts are saying... Best performance, highest capacity drives with field-proven reliability for mission-critical 3.5-inch Tier 1 enterprise environments. Cheetah 15K drives offer the high performance, increased capacity, and optimized power consumption that enterprises require for demanding Tier 1 enterprise requirements, includingHigh-performance and mainstream enterprise servers and external storageStorage area networks (SAN)Network attached storage (NAS)Direct attached storage (DAS) Why Choose the Cheetah 15K? Delivers unprecedented performance with a sustained data rate of up to 171MB/s-a 16 percent increase over the previous generationOffers the largest capacity of any 3.5-inch Tier 1 drive, with third-generation perpendicular recordingFeatures the industrys highest reliability rating with an MTBF* of 1.6 million hoursIncludes PowerTrim technology, dynamically reducing power usage by 21 percent over the previous generationSupports 6GB/s SAS 2.0 and 4GB/s FCIncludes advanced read/write technology for an unrecoverable error rate of 1x10E16 and an annualized failure rate (AFR) of 0.55 percentTCG-compliant, Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) security o
