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450GB Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 SAS 3GB/s Enterprise Class Hard Drive. Unprecedented single drive performance, up to 164MB/sec sustained. High reliability, low power 15K RPM drive. 5 Year Warranty. (SEAST3450856SS) 24-48 hrs $569.99
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Cheetah 15K.6
Highest capacity and reliability in mission-critical storage


450 GB •15K RPM • 3-Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)

The Cheetah 15K.6 series hard drives offer high-capacity storage, high-speed performance and high-end reliability. They are the perfect solution for your mail server, network storage, or any application demanding performance, capacity and reliability.

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

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

Seagate Makes the Best Even Better With a 5-Year Warranty

Seagate offers the industry’s leading warranty to demonstrate our commitment to product reliability and our customers' success. Every Seagate internal hard drive for PCs, notebook computers and entry-level servers is covered by a 5-year limited warranty.

Specifications

450 GB1
Model Number ST3450856SS
Capacity
Formatted 512 Kbytes/Sector (GB) 450

External Transfer Rate (MB/s)
3-Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI

300
Performance
Spindle Speed (RPM) 15K
Average Latency (ms) 2.0

Seek Time
Average Read/Write (ms)
Track-to-Track Read/Write (ms)

3.4/3.9
0.2/0.4

Transfer Rate
Internal (Mb/s)
Sustained (MB/s, 1000 x 1000)

1051 to 2225
171 to 110

Cache, Multisegmented (MB/s) 16
Configuration/Organization
Discs 4
Heads 8
Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read 1 sector per 1016
Reliability Rating at Full 24x7 Operation (AFR) 0.55%
Power Management

Typical (W)
SAS

17.3
Power Idle (W)
SAS
12.4
Environmental
Temperature, Operating (°C) 5 to 55
Temperature, Nonoperating (°C) –40 to 70
Shock, Operating: 2 ms (Gs) 60
Shock, Nonoperating: 2 ms (Gs) 250
Acoustics Idle (bels—sound power) 3.6
Vibration, Operating: <400 Hz (Gs) 1.0
Vibration, Nonoperating: <400 Hz (Gs) 2.0
Physical
Height (in/mm) 1.0/25.4
Width (in/mm) 4.0/101.6
Depth (in/mm) 5.75/146.05
Weight (lb/g) 1.56/0.709
  1. One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity.

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