The higher performance and capacity of Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 drives reduce storage costs per GB and increase capacity per watt. The drive has the industry’s highest reliability rating, reducing drive replacement costs. The Cheetah 15K.7 drive includes Seagate PowerTrim technology, which dynamically optimizes drive power consumption at all levels of activity.

Key Features and Benefits
- Highest-performance 3.5-inch Tier 1 drive.
- Highest-capacity Tier 1 drive (600GB).
- Highest reliability rating in the industry.
- Seagate PowerTrim technology dynamically reduces power usage.
- Supports 6-Gb/s SAS 2.0 and 4-Gb/s FC.

Key Advantages
- Third-generation perpendicular recording for maximum capacity.
- Unprecedented performance with a 16 percent increase in sustained data rate over the last generation, up to 171 MB/sec.
- Industry’s highest 3.5-inch drive reliability at 1.6-million-hours MTBF.
- Seagate proprietary PowerTrim technology provides up to 21 percent improvement over the last generation in watts/GB at idle.
- Advanced read/write technology delivers unrecoverable error rate of 1x10E16 and AFR of 0.55 percent.
- Available in 4Gb/s FC or 6Gb/s 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.