The Seagate Cheetah 10K.6 - the lowest cost of ownership 10K disc drive
The Cheetah 10K.6 is the Seagate sixth-generation 10K RPM high-performance, high-capacity disc drive offered in 147-, 73- and 36-Gbyte capacities. With the fastest interfaces (Ultra320 and 2-Gbit/sec Fibre Channel), the highest reliability and the most mature product design, the Cheetah 10K.6 enables the lowest ownership cost. In data-intensive environments, increasing the capacity per disc drive lowers ownership costs by deploying fewer systems that use less cubic feet of space requiring less wattage of power. The Cheetah 10K.6 offers the most capacity in the smallest amount of space at the lowest cost per gigabyte.
Best fit applications
The Cheetah 10K.6 performs flawlessly in a range of applications and workloads that depend on high reliability and low ownership cost. The more grueling the task, the more difficult the workload, the better the Cheetah 10K.6 performs.
The Cheetah 10K.6 covers a broad range of capacities and a broad range of interfaces including the Ultra320 SCSI and 2-Gbit/sec Fibre Channel. Some of the hardware categories for the Cheetah 10K.6 are:
• Entry Level Servers
• Mid-Range Servers
• High-End Servers
• RAID Storage Systems
• Network Attached Storage
• Data Warehousing Systems
• Storage Area Network
• Data Streaming
Key features:
• Extremely fast seek times of 4.7 msec
• Highest reliability rating of 1.2M hours MTBF
• 25-percent improved data transfer rate
• Low Idle acoustics of 3.2 bels
• Low Idle power at 6.8 watts
• All capacities offered in Ultra320 and 2-Gbit/sec Fibre Channel interfaces
Driving down storage total cost of ownership
Utilizing the highest capacity Cheetah 10K drive is advantageous in many ways. By increasing the amount of capacity per spindle, IT professionals can deploy fewer systems. Envision a RAID array tied into a Storage Area Network (SAN) utilizing twenty-eight 36-Gbyte drives to achieve one Terabyte of storage. The power, cooling and cubic feet of space requirements are significant. Furthermore, the behind-the-scenes infrastructure costs are large: two structures to hold twenty-eight drives, at least two Host Bus Adapters (HBAs), large Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), and power (wattage) to fuel twenty-eight drives.
Now envision the 147-Gbyte Cheetah 10K.6. One Terabyte of storage is achieved with eight drives. Fewer disc drives draw less power, cool easier, require less cubic feet of space, and utilize one channel of a dual-channel HBA. Moreover, system-level reliability improves because significantly fewer drives are used. In summary, when capacity is the driving metric, increased capacity per spindle lowers the cost of deploying and maintaining storage systems.
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