Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 Hard Drive
The Seagate® Cheetah 15K.5 hard drive is the highest-performance 3.5-inch Seagate drive, built for mainstream enterprise applications. Its performance enables it to provide equal or higher IOPs (input/output per second) than multiple slower hard drives.

The Seagate Cheetah Promise
The Seagate® Cheetah® 15K.5 hard drive's superb performance and reliability provide data centers with "economies of speed"—offering lower total cost of ownership.

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The Seagate® Cheetah® 15K.5 hard drive delivers equally high throughput with fewer drives than conventional 10K-RPM storage solutions.

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The Seagate® Cheetah® 15K.5 hard drive delivers equally high throughput with fewer drives than conventional 10K-RPM storage solutions, making it the the most cost-effective path to maximum performance and availability.

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The Seagate® Cheetah® 15K.5 hard drive delivers equally high throughput with fewer drives than conventional 10K-RPM storage solutions. The lower drive count cuts costs and shrinks the storage footprint, delivering the most cost-effective path to maximum performance and availability.

Product Highlights

• Up to 300-GB capacity
• Up to 96-Mb/s sustained transfer rate
• 1.4 million hours full duty cycle MTBF
• SAS, Fibre Channel and Ultra320 interfaces
• Seagate 5-year limited warranty

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The powerful Seagate® Cheetah® 15K.5 hard drive is designed for the enterprise to conquer ever-increasing IT performance demands. It is both innovative and cost-effective, improving overall system performance and reliability while reducing operational costs.

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The powerful Seagate® Cheetah® 15K.5 hard drive allows businesses to fully leverage their IT infrastructures while improving overall systems reliability and reducing operational costs.

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• Lower TCO through fewer drives with higher I/O
• Increased system reliability due to fewer drives
• Up to 96-Mb/s sustained data transfer rates

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• Lower TCO
• Increased reliability
• Top-tier performance

Target Audiences

• Distributors. The Seagate® Cheetah® 15K.5 hard drive excels in even the most demanding enterprise environments. This, however, does not stop it from sporting the best price-per-performance in its class, making it the perfect drive for customers looking for excellent cost-effectiveness



• OEMs. The Seagate® Cheetah® 15K.5 hard drive delivers enough IOPs to replace multiple slower drives. With fewer drives in operation, your system achieves higher reliability and improved cost-effectiveness.



• System Builders. The Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 hard drive delivers the best price-per-performance in its class. Fast enough to replace multiple slower drives, it allows you to build more cost-effective systems utilizing fewer drives for higher reliability—benefits that you can leverage in designing the next generation of enterprise systems.



• Strategic IT. The Seagate® Cheetah® 15K.5 hard drive is a product of Seagate commitment to innovation. With the best price-per-performance in its class, the drive allows you to replace multiple slower drives with a more cost-effective alternative and no loss in performance. With fewer drives in operation, you’ll achieve greater reliability and reduced TCO.



• Functional IT. The Seagate® Cheetah® 15K.5 hard drive deliver the fastest time-to-data, resulting in 30 percent more IOPS and better than 20 percent faster response times than typical 3.5-inch 10K drives. The Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 hard drive is available with 3-Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI, Ultra320 SCSI, and 4-Gb/s Fibre Channel interfaces with capacities of 73, 147 and 300 GB.