Seagate Announces New Cheetah 15K.5 Hard Drives

Seagate Announces New Cheetah 15K.5 Hard Drives

Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) today announced its Cheetah 15K.5 hard drive, the latest generation of Seagate’s acclaimed flagship enterprise product line. With a strong family history of record-breaking achievements, the new Cheetah 15K.5 drive sets the pace once again for fulfilling the needs of the enterprise by delivering the world’s fastest performance with the highest reliability and capacity ever offered in a 15K drive.

Available with up to 300 gigabytes capacity and 30% increased performance, the Cheetah 15K.5 delivers the best price-per-performance in its class. The Cheetah 15K.5 hard drive enables a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for a wide variety of enterprise applications from e-mail, Internet, and e-commerce, to business processing and decision support.

The Cheetah 15K.5 leveraged Seagate’s R&D leadership to create the world’s first enterprise hard drive with perpendicular recording. Perpendicular recording technology lets the Cheetah 15K.5 deliver twice the capacity of 15K drives currently available while providing a performance increase over previous generations by as large as 30%.

Seagate is now shipping the Cheetah 15K.5 to leading OEM Customers. The Cheetah 15K.5 will be launched to the Distribution Channel later this quarter.

Enterprise Storage is the Backbone of your Digital Life

“Datacenter storage requirements, on average, are increasing 55%-60% per year based not only on internal business processing needs, but also the increasing demand to deliver content to a growing number of digital devices worldwide,” said Dave Reinsel, director of storage hardware research at IDC. “Whether it be for entertainment or business, products like Seagate’s new Cheetah 15K.5 provide companies an opportunity to reinforce their enterprise storage backbone with high performance and high capacity disk drives.”

“Storage needs have grown in scale that are almost unimaginable today as digital content is everywhere in our daily lives,” said Sherman Black, senior vice president and general manager, Seagate Enterprise Compute. “From traditional computers, to devices in the home such as personal video recorders, to handheld devices like portable music players or cellular phones, it is critical that enterprise storage on the back end is optimized to work in these demanding environments with high availability and performance.”