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Seagate's New Cheetah 15K.6 Hard Drive

Seagate Technology has just launched its new hard Cheetah 15K.6 will be distributed later this month. Built from zero for the calculation of high-performance and storage environments in a company that Cheetah is a family of high-level offers Seagate product family of storage.

The new units are with the second generation of technology and vertical application proposes
The market, and has a capacity of 450GB, 300GB, 147GB. However, the Cheetah family offers more memory: its most important feature is the performance, and the units to 1.6 million hours of continuous work (MTBF - the average time before the crash).

Seagate Cheetah, the highest performance in the sacrifices factor of 3.5-inch form factor and will enjoy a 28 percent increase in the proportion of transmission of data (164 MB / s), in up to 61 percent less energy than the previous generations of server-class storage devices. The power-saving successes are possible through the integration of technology Seagate Power Trim, dynamically optimized, the unit of energy consumption, whether in the active or inactive mode.

Top-tier OEM system vendors are currently offering of the new Seagate in their SAN storage systems. One of the adoptive parents is the most active in the HP Network Attached Storage devices for businesses and corporations.

"HP's Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA), the recent Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 hard, white, as the requirements of our most demanding customers running mission-critical enterprise applications," said Kyle Fitze, Director, Marketing StorageWorks SAN, HP. "The improvements in performance, reliability, the saving of energy, the willingness and ability to help EVA together so that our own systems for the provision of greater value for our customers."

The hard Cheetah 15K.6 is part of the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), version as a reference point for medium and large enterprises, such as Super Micro Computer, Inc., which provides offers the reader in his super server.

"Many of our customers need high quality, performance and efficiency of the system," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "Integration of Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 hard in our 85% + High efficiency, the Earth user-friendly Super Server (TM) and Server Building Block Solutions (R) offers not only the performance but also the saving of energy, the scalability and TCO is reduced. "

After Matt Bryson, Analyst stockpiling bird flu Securities, the new offering from Seagate is "important implications industry," because his nemesis in the market for storage, Fujitsu, currently has no coordination of the offer. However, it will take some time to get the jump on a 600-GB hard disk directly, especially in its class and more companies offer storage.

"From our perspective, the small Seagate introduction of new products and the class Fujitsu's apparent decision not to play, the ability to at least Seagate strengthen the position of our share of the market with a potential Seagate to see some gains from shares" , said Bryson.

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