Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 ST3600957SS 600GB 15K 6.0Gbps Self-Encrypting SED Serial SCSI / SAS Hard Drive

Seagate ST3600957SS SAS Hard Disk Drives

Capacity: 600GB
Spindle Speed: 15,000RPM
Interface Type: SAS / Serial Attached SCSI
Disk Size: 3.5″x1.0″ (LFF Hard Drive)
Sustained Throughput (MBps): up to 171
Average Seek Time (read/write ms): 3.4 / 3.9
Electrical Interface Speed: SAS-2 / Serial Attached SCSI (Generation 2) – 6.0Gbps 
On-Board Cache: 16MB

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 (600 GB)
• 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

The Seagate® Cheetah® 15K.7 is the highest performing, highest capacity 3.5-inch mission critical hard drive with best-in-class reliability for Tier 1 storage environments. This industry-leading enterprise drive reduces storage costs per GB while increasing capacity per watt. Drive power consumption is dynamically optimized at all levels of activity with Seagate’s exclusive PowerTrim technology. Cut IT drive retirement costs.

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 204 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
• Provides TCG-compliant, Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) security option (SAS models only) to eliminate the need to overwrite or physically destroy drives, enable safe return of drives for warranty or expired lease purposes and allow organizations to securely repurpose or sell hard drives.

DPN: 5XTFH / 05XTFH / T873K / 0T873K  

Compatibility

This drive is compatible with all SAS compatible servers including:

Dell PowerEdge 840, 1900, 1950, 1950 III, 2900, 2900 III, 2950, 2950 III, 2970, 6900, 6950, R300, R900, R905, T300, T605 Servers and PowerVault MD1000, MD3000, NF100, NF500, NF600 Storage Arrays.

HP / Compaq Proliant DL140 G2 , DL140 G3 , DL145 G2 , DL145 G3 , DL160 G5 , DL160 G5p , DL165 G5 , DL180 G5 , DL185 G5, DL320 G3 , DL320 G4 , DL320 G5 , DL320 G5p , DL360 G4p , DL380 G5 , ML110 G3 , ML150 G3 , ML150 G5 , ML310 G2 , ML310 G3 , ML310 G4 , ML310 G5 , ML350 G4p , ML350 G5.

DPN: 5XTFH / 05XTFH / T873K / 0T873K 

Specifications
Model number	ST3600957SS
Model Name	Cheetah 15K.7
Form Factor(width)	3.5-inch
Form Factor(height)	1-inch
Height	26.1 mm
Width	101.85 mm
Length	146.99 mm
Weight	0.800 kg
Formatted Capacity	600 Gbytes
Rotational Speed	15,000 rpm
External (I/O) Transfer Rate (max)	6.0Gbits/sec
Average Seek Time, Read	3.4 msec typical
Average Seek Time, Write	3.9 msec typical
Average Latency	2 msec
Default Buffer (cache) Size	16 Mbytes
Operating Temperature (max)	55 deg C
Operating Temperature (min)	5 deg C
Nonoperating Temperature (max)	70 deg C
Nonoperating Temperature (min)	-40 deg C
MTBF (Hours)	1,600,000 hours