About Seagate

 
  • NEWS: Seagate Delivers Industry's First Purpose-Built 4TB Video Hard Disk Drive Read More

Inside IT Storage

Seagate Enterprise Inside IT Storage

Two Cheetah 15K.7 drives do the work of ten

Seagate Cheetah 15K.7The history of the disk drive industry is a long series of relentless “firsts”.  The latest Seagate Cheetah 15k drive stands out as a particularly impressive milestone.

Barefeats was able to use two Cheetah 15K.7 drives on uncompressed video in a way that required ten drives in the past: four 15K SAS drives and six 7200 rpm SATA drives.  Speed and performance in and enterprise drive!

“The Cheetah 15K.7 is the fastest SAS drive we’ve ever tested plus it now offers storage capacity up to 600GB.”

Barefeats also noted that the new Cheetah “now rivals the fastest SSDs” in large sequential transfer speed.

TweakTown found the Cheetah 15K.7 to be just as big and fast, but noted another milestone: the first 15K rpm drive to drop below the $1 per GB barrier.

Big, fast and less expensive.  Somehow disk drives continue their march to the beat of Moore’s Law - or is it Kryder’s Law have an even faster beat?

    November 16, 2009 - 9:26 am | By Pete Steege | Posted in 10K/15K RPM, Products, reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

    Post a Comment

    Your email is never shared.

    * Required fields

    * Seagate will review all blog submissions and determine, in its sole discretion, whether such submissions will be posted for broader viewing. No blog comment will be considered for posting if deemed potentially damaging to Seagate's reputation or insufficiently aligned with the relevant blog topic. Without in any way limiting the foregoing, no submissions will be posted that contain: confidential company information; profanity; racial slurs; gratuitous references to sex, substance use, or violence; or statements that are in any way contrary to the letter or spirit of Seagate's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.