Seagate
Cheetah 15K.7 SAS 450GB Server Hard Drive (ST3450857SS)

Cheetah® 15K.7

Highest capacity, performance and reliability in 3.5-inch mission-critical storage

600, 450 and 300 GB • 15K RPM • 6 Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI • 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel

Key Advantages

• Third-generation perpendicular recording delivers up to 600 GB

• Unprecedented performance with a sustained data rate of up to 204 MB/s — a 16 per cent increase over the previous generation

• Industry’s highest 3.5-inch drive reliability at 1.6 million hours MTBF

• Seagate PowerTrim ™ technology provides a 62 per cent improvement in GBs/watt when idling over typical 3.5-inch hard drives

• Read/write advances deliver a non-recoverable error rate of 1x10

• Available in 4 Gb/s FC or 6 Gb/s SAS interfaces (supports SAS 2.0 feature set)

• TCG-compliant Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option cuts IT drive retirement expenses while protecting data securely and is one of the easiest, most cost-effective security measures you can implement 1

• FIPS Self-Encrypting Drive option provides all the benefits of SED and is NIST certified to meet US, Canada and UK government data encryption compliance requirements 1, 2

Best-fit Applications

• Storage area networks and networked attached storage

• Email, decision support, Internet and e-commerce

• US government-grade, data-at-rest security when drives leave your control 1

• Drive retirement cost reduction and drive life extension strategies 1

1 Requires TCG-compliant host or controller support. Not available in all countries.
2 See FIPS 140-2 Level 2 Certificate at http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/1401vend.htm.