Seagate Cheetah NS Hard Drive
The Seagate® Cheetah® NS hard drive is optimized for network storage applications, combining the highest available storage capacity with the lowest power consumption to deliver the industry's best $/GB and GB/W value in enterprise mission-critical storage.

The Seagate Cheetah Promise
The Seagate® Cheetah® NS drive provides the highest available capacity in mission-critical network storage and delivers better IOPS performance, energy efficiency and reliability than standard 3.5-inch 10K-RPM drives.

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The Seagate® Cheetah® NS drive delivers the industry's best $/GB and GB/W value in enterprise mission-critical network storage.

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The Seagate® Cheetah® NS drive provides the highest capacity in mission-critical network storage and delivers better IOPS performance, energy efficiency and reliability than standard 3.5-inch 10K-RPM drives.

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The Seagate® Cheetah® NS drive provides the highest capacity in mission-critical network storage and delivers better IOPS performance, energy efficiency and reliability than standard 3.5-inch 10K-RPM drives. It comes with either a Fibre Channel or Serial Attached SCSI interface.

Product Highlights

• 400-GB capacity
• PowerTrim™ technology energy savings
• Best-in-class 10K-RPM performance
• Fibre Channel and Serial Attached SCSI interfaces
• Seagate 5-year limited warranty

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The Seagate® Cheetah® NS drive provides the highest capacity in mission-critical network storage and delivers better IOPS performance, energy efficiency and reliability than standard 3.5-inch 10K-RPM drives. It delivers the industry’s best $/GB and GB/W value in enterprise mission-critical storage. Seagate changes the rules for network storage with the Cheetah 15K.5 drive and the Cheetah NS drive. Customers can choose between two versions of the new-generation mission-critical drive: the 300-GB Cheetah 15K.5 drive with best-in-class 15K-RPM transactional performance or the 400-GB Cheetah NS drive with PowerTrim™ technology energy savings and best-in-class 10K-RPM performance. These drives in combination truly cover the spectrum of network storage requirements .

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The Seagate® Cheetah® NS drive provides the highest capacity in mission-critical network storage and delivers better IOPS performance, energy efficiency and reliability than standard 3.5-inch 10K-RPM drives. It delivers the industry’s best $/GB and GB/W value in enterprise mission-critical storage. Seagate changes the rules for network storage with the Cheetah 15K.5 drive and the Cheetah NS drive. Customers can choose between two versions of the new-generation mission-critical drive: the 300-GB Cheetah 15K.5 drive with best-in-class 15K-RPM transactional performance or the 400-GB Cheetah NS drive with PowerTrim™ technology energy savings and best-in-class 10K-RPM performance. These drives in combination truly cover the spectrum of network storage requirements .

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• 400-GB capacity¾highest available in mission-critical enterprise storage
• PowerTrim™ technology energy savings¾better energy efficiency than other 10K-RPM drives
• Best-in-class IOPS performance

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• 400-GB capacity¾highest available in mission-critical enterprise storage
• PowerTrim™ technology energy savings¾better energy efficiency than other 10K-RPM drives
• Best-in-class 10K-RPM performance

Target Audiences

• Distributors The Seagate® Cheetah® NS drive provides the highest capacity in mission-critical network storage and delivers better IOPS performance, energy efficiency and reliability than standard 3.5-inch 10K-RPM drives. Customers can choose between two versions of the new-generation mission-critical drive: the 300-GB Cheetah 15K.5 drive with best-in-class 15K-RPM transactional performance or the 400-GB Cheetah NS drive with PowerTrim™ technology energy savings and best-in-class 10K-RPM performance. These drives in combination truly cover the spectrum of your customers' requirements for network storage.



• OEMs The Seagate® Cheetah® NS drive provides the highest capacity in mission-critical network storage and delivers better IOPS performance, energy efficiency and reliability than standard 3.5-inch 10K-RPM drives. It delivers the industry's best $/GB and GB/W value in enterprise mission-critical storage. Four-disk 400-GB capacity, enabled by proven perpendicular recording technology, is offered with a 4-Gb/s FC or a 3-Gb/s SAS interface. Three-disk 300-GB capacity is also available on 4Gb/s FC drives.



• System Builders The Seagate® Cheetah® NS drive provides the highest capacity in mission-critical network storage and delivers better IOPS performance, energy efficiency and reliability than standard 3.5-inch 10K-RPM drives. It delivers the industry's best $/GB and GB/W value in enterprise mission-critical storage. The Cheetah NS provides the highest capacity available in mission-critical network storage and comes with either a Fibre Channel or a Serial Attached SCSI interface. It enables up to 33 percent more storage per slot over 15K-RPM and standard 10K-RPM products and provides 10 percent higher random performance than best-in-class 10K FC (queue depth 1, 2K blocks) and 23 percent higher sequential performance. At the same time, the Cheetah NS drive requires up to 30 percent less power than current 10K-RPM 300-GB drives. The Cheetah NS drive represents mature technology, highly leveraged from the Cheetah 15K.5 drive. It offers outstanding reliability¾1.4 million hours MTBF.



• Strategic IT The Seagate® Cheetah® NS drive provides the highest capacity in mission-critical network storage and delivers better IOPS performance, energy efficiency and reliability than standard 3.5-inch 10K-RPM drives. It delivers the industry's best $/GB and GB/W value in enterprise mission-critical storage. The Cheetah NS provides the highest capacity available in mission-critical network storage and comes with either a Fibre Channel or a Serial Attached SCSI interface. Customers can choose between two versions of the new-generation mission-critical drive: the 300-GB Cheetah 15K.5 drive with best-in-class 15K-RPM transactional performance or the 400-GB Cheetah NS drive with PowerTrim™ technology energy savings and best-in-class 10K-RPM performance. These drives in combination truly cover the spectrum of your requirements for network storage. The Cheetah NS drive offers a 30 percent reduction in total power consumption over current 10K-RPM 300-GB drives. To IT this represents a double benefit. Not only does it allow a savings in power supply capacity and running costs, but also represents an equivalent reduction in per-slot storage cabinet cooling requirements. IT departments not only benefit from the capacity increase of the Cheetah NS, but also from its enterprise performance, where increases of 10 percent in random performance and 23 percent higher sequential throughput deliver best-in-class 10K-RPM network storage.



• Functional IT The Seagate® Cheetah® NS drive provides the highest capacity in mission-critical network storage and delivers better IOPS performance, energy efficiency and reliability than standard 3.5-inch 10K-RPM drives. IT departments not only benefit from the capacity increase of the Cheetah NS, but also from its enterprise performance, where increases of 10 percent in random performance and 23 percent higher sequential throughput deliver best-in-class 10K-RPM network storage. The Cheetah NS drive represents mature technology, highly leveraged from the Cheetah 15K.5 drive. It offers outstanding reliability¾1.4 million hours MTBF.