The Cheetah® 15K.5 hard drive enables manageable tiered storage solutions without compromising performance or reliability. Cheetah 15K.5 drives deliver cost-effective solutions, allowing systems to keep up with increasing performance needs over a longer period of time.

Key Features and Benefits

• 16-MB cache
• Perpendicular recording technology for maximum capacity
• Up to 125-MB/s sustained transfer rate
• 30 percent more IOPS than 10K 3.5-inch drives
• Reduced RAID rebuild times
• Highest reliability rating in the industry
• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
• 5-year warranty

Applications

• Workstations
• Midrange and high-end servers
• Direct attached (JBOD/RAID) storage
• Storage area networks (SAN)
• Network attached storage (NAS)
• High-performance computing (scientific/technical data)
• Data streaming, mining, visualization and analysis
• Online transaction processing (OLTP)
• Collaboration (groupware, email, e-learning, messaging)