Seagate 15K.5 - Cheetah - Hard Drive User manual

Cheetah 15K.5
Mainstream enterprise disc drive storage
300, 146 and 73GB—15K RPM—Ultra320 SCSI, 3 Gbit/sec Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and
4 Gbit/sec FC
The Best
Price/Performance,
Cost of Ownership
Disc Drive
Key Advantages
• Perpendicular recording is fundamentally superior, enabling
300GB capacity with 30 percent higher performance.
• Cheetah® 15K.5 is the first drive to break the 100-Mbyte sustained
transfer rate barrier, delivering up to 125 Mbyte/sec.
• Fastest and most reliable Cheetah 15K ever
• 30 percent more IOPS and more than 20 percent faster response
times than 3.5-inch 10K drives
• Enables higher performance with fewer drives, reducing
supporting infrastructure, maintenance and space needs, while
increasing system reliability
• Highest reliability of any 3.5-inch drive in the industry, designed
for demanding 24x7 enterprise applications
• Reduces RAID rebuild times while minimising reliability risks
• Non-recoverable Error Rate has been improved by a factor of 10.
Best-Fit Applications
All mainstream enterprise applications, such as:
• E-mail
• Business processing
• Transaction processing
• Decision support
• Storage Area Networks (SAN)
• Networked Attached Storage (NAS)
• Internet and e-commerce

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Lowest Cost of Ownership
• Fifth-generation Cheetah 15K is the fastest, highest capacity and
most reliable ever.
• Cheetah 15K performance and reliability enable lower TCO for
a wide variety of enterprise applications.
• Cheetah 15K RPM and fast seek times deliver the fastest time-
to-data, resulting in 30% more IOPS and >20% faster response
times than 3.5-inch 10K drives.
• Cheetah 15K enables higher performance with fewer drives—
reducing support infrastructure, physical space requirements and
storage management costs.
• Cheetah 15K drives have the highest reliability of any 3.5-inch
drive in the industry, and further increase system reliability due
to the need for fewer drives.
Highest Reliability
• Optimal reliability and data protection continues to be a focus
of Seagate enterprise drives. Adding several new features in this
generation of Cheetah 15K has improved the non-recoverable
error rate by a factor of 10.
• Seagate-exclusive IRAW (Idle Read After Write) enhances data
protection by verifying—during drive idle time—that data in
the drive buffer was properly written.
• Seagate-exclusive enhanced Error Correction Code better
maintains performance throughout the life of the drive and
reduces the probability of lost data.
• The second generation of Seagate-exclusive Background Media
Scan (BMS) proactively scans the media for potential defects
during drive idle time. It enables incipient errors to be corrected
before data is lost.
• The Cheetah 15K.5 is designed and manufactured by the same
teams that successfully delivered the past four award-winning
generations of Cheetah 15K.
World-Class Technical Support
• Certified, experienced support staff
• Rated “Above Average to Excellent” by 95% of our customers
• Support lines with the shortest wait times in the industry
• Individually archived case histories for quick reference
• Web-based Q&A forum and autoreply e-mail
• Seagate Design Service Centres (DSC) help companies
transform innovative ideas into viable products.
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Cheetah 15K.5
Mainstream enterprise disc drive storage
Model Number
Capacity
Formatted 512 Kbytes/Sector (GB)
External Transfer Rate (Mbytes/sec)
Ultra320 SCSI
4-Gbit/sec FibreChannel
3-Gbit/sec Serial Attached SCSI
Performance
Spindle Speed (RPM)
Average Latency (msec)
Seek Time
Average Read/Write (msec)
Track-to-Track Read/Write (msec)
Transfer Rate
Internal (Mbits/sec)
Internal Formatted (Mbytes/sec)
Sustained (Mbytes/sec)
Cache, Multisegmented (Mbytes)
Configuration/Organisation
Discs
Heads
Non-recoverable Read Errors per
Bits Read
Annualised Failure Rate (AFR) (%)
Power Management
Typical (watts) SCSI
Fibre Channel
SAS
Power Idle (watts) SCSI
Fibre Channel
SAS
Environmental
Temperature, Operating (°C)
Temperature, Non-operating (°C)
Shock, Operating: 2 msec (Gs)
Shock, Non-operating: 2 msec (Gs)
Acoustics Idle (bels—sound power)
Vibration, Operating: <400 Hz (Gs)
Vibration, Non-operating: <400 Hz (Gs)
Physical
Height (in/mm)
Width (in/mm)
Depth (in/mm)
Weight (lb/kg)
Warranty
Limited Warranty (years)
300GB1
Specifications 146.8GB173.4GB1
ST3300655LW/LC/FC/SS
300
320
400
300
15K
2.0
3.5/4.0
0.2/0.4
960 to 1607
89 to 150
73 to 125
16
4
8
1 sector per 1016
0.62
17.6
18.8
17.4
12.5
13.7
13.2
5 to 55
–40 to 70
60
250
3.6
1.0
2.0
1.0/25.4
4.0/101.6
5.75/146.05
1.5/0.771
5
ST3146855LW/LC/FC/SS
146.8
320
400
300
15K
2.0
3.5/4.0
0.2/0.4
960 to 1607
89 to 150
73 to 125
16
2
4
1 sector per 1016
0.62
14.2
16.5
14.9
9.6
10.7
11.2
5 to 55
–40 to 70
60
250
3.2
1.0
2.0
1.0/25.4
4.0/101.6
5.75/146.05
1.5/0.771
5
ST373455LW/LC/FC/SS
73.4
320
400
300
15K
2.0
3.5/4.0
0.2/0.4
960 to 1607
89 to 150
73 to 125
16
1
2
1 sector per 1016
0.62
13.6
14.7
13.7
8.1
9.2
8.4
5 to 55
–40 to 70
60
250
3.0
1.0
2.0
1.0/25.4
4.0/101.6
5.75/146.05
1.5/0.771
5
1 One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity.