Seagate Technology is announcing today a new 15,000 RPM disk drive, the Cheetah 15K.5 featuring capacities of 73 GB, 147 GB and 300 GB delivered over 1, 2 and 4 discs, respectively.
According to Seagate the new drive is the first enterprise class unit to deploy perpendicular recording, a technology that doubles recording density storing bits vertically on the platters.
The new Cheetah can be ordered with Ultra320 SCSI, Serial Attached SCSI, and 4 Gb Fibre Channel connectivity.
The company indicates that the new drive delivers 30 percent faster performance than its predecessor and has a transfer rate of up to 125 MBps.
The new unit is available immediately to OEM customers and should begin shipping to channel customers later this quarters, says Seagate. Pricing was not mentioned in today's announcement.
Posted by Mario Apicella on April 18, 2006 03:19 AM
