The Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 hard drive enables manageable tiered storage solutions without compromising performance or reliability. Cheetah 15K.6 drives deliver cost-effective solutions, allowing systems to keep up with increasing performance needs over a longer period of time.

Key Advantages

• Second-generation perpendicular recording delivers up to 450-GB capacity.
• Unprecedented performance with a 28 percent increase in sustained data rate, up to 164 MB/sec.
• Industry’s highest 3.5-inch drive reliability at 1.6-million-hours MTBF.
• Seagate proprietary PowerTrim™ technology provides a 61 percent improvement in watts/GB at idle.
• Advanced read/write technology delivers unrecoverable error rate of 1x10-16
• Available in FC or SAS interfaces

Best-Fit Applications

All mainstream enterprise applications, such as:

• Email
• Business processing
• Transaction processing
• Decision support
• Storage area networks
• Networked attached storage
• Internet and e-commerce
  

Specifications
	Model Number	ST3450856SS
	Interface	SAS 3Gb/s
	Cache	16 MBytes
	Capacity	450 GB
	Areal density (avg)	165 Gbits/inch2
	PHYSICAL
	Height (max)	26.11 mm (1.028 inches)
	Width (max)	101.85 mm (4.010 inches)
	Length (max)	146.99 mm (5.787 inches)
	Weight (typical)	709 grams (1.53 pounds)
	PERFORMANCE
	Spindle Speed	15,000 rpm
	Average latency	2.0 msec
	Random read seek time	3.4 msec
	Random write seek time	3.9 msec
	RELIABILITY
	MTBF	1,600,000 hours
	Annual Failure Rate	0.01
	POWER
	12V start max current	4.56 amps
	5V start max current	1.95 amps