Seagate Launches two New Cheetah Hard Drives
By Wilson • Jan 19th, 2009 • Category: Mobile Computing Accessory NewsSeagate, the world’s top notch maker of high performance hard disk drives has recently expanded its Cheetah hard drives line up by introducing two new Cheetah models named the Cheetah 15K.7 and Cheetah NS.2. Cheetah hard drives are known for their performance, speed and reliability and these two newbies are targeted at enhancing these three prime attributes.
These drives are ideal for use in corporate IT environments based on a standard 3.5-inch enterprise infrastructure. They are optimised for low power consumption and offer the advantage of low drive replacement costs and low storage cost per gigabyte. As of now, the new Cheetah hard drives are the largest capacity mission critical drives and come in 600GB storage capacity, which is larger than the 400GB provided by the older Seagate Cheetah NS hard drive. Seagate build them exclusively for 3.5-inch Tier 1 storage applications. Both the drives are powered via 2nd-generation PowerTrim technology that enables dynamic power consumption management. It actually makes the drives smart enough to adjust the power consumption according to the level of activities.
John Rydning, IDC’s research director for hard disk drives said, “External storage system OEMs continue to consume the majority of 3.5-inch performance-optimized HDDs shipped each quarter, whereas server manufacturers consumed nearly all of the 2.5-inch SFF performance-optimized HDDs that shipped in 2008. Seagate’s new 3.5-inch Cheetah disk drives with up to 600GBs of capacity will fill a critical need for both its customers and end users looking to extend the life of existing external storage system platforms.”
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