The Seagate® Cheetah® 15K.6 hard drive enables manageable tiered storage solutions without compromising performance or reliability. Cheetah 15K.6 drives deliver cost-effective solutions, allowing systems to keep up with increasing performance needs over a longer period of time.
Key Advantages
- Second-generation perpendicular recording for maximum capacity
- Unprecedented performance with a 28 percent increase in sustained data rate, up to 164 MB/sec.
- Industry’s highest 3.5-inch drive reliability at 1.6-million-hours MTBF.
- Seagate proprietary PowerTrim™ technology provides a 61 percent improvement in watts/GB at idle.
- Advanced read/write technology delivers unrecoverable error rate of 1x10-16 
- Available in FC or 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
Products specifications
| Attribute name | Attribute value | 
|---|
| Width | 4.01" | 
| Depth | 5.79" | 
| Height | 1.03" | 
| Weight | 24.5 oz | 
| Type | HDD | 
| Non-operating shock | 250 G | 
| HDD number of heads | 6 | 
| Track density | 165 Gbits/inch2 | 
| Internal | Yes | 
| Component for | Server/workstation | 
| Data transfer rate | 3 Gbit/s | 
| HDD capacity | 300 GB | 
| HDD speed | 15000 RPM | 
| Storage drive buffer size | 16 MB | 
| Read seek time | 3.4 ms | 
| Write seek time | 3.9 ms | 
| Average latency | 2 ms | 
| Mean time between failures (MTBF) | 1600000 h | 
| Interface | SAS | 
| Operating temperature (T-T) | 5 - 55 °C | 
| Storage temperature (T-T) | -40 - 70 °C | 
| Operating shock | 60 G |