Seagate Officially Announces New Cheetah Drives

[Pariah]

Not surprisingly, ZDNet's numbers were all wrong:

SEAGATE'S NEW CHEETAHS DRIVE DOWN STORAGE TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP

Cheetah 15K.3: 3.6ms seek time, 49MB/s-75MB/s STR

Cheetah 10K.6: 4.7ms seek time, 38MB/s-68.5MB/s STR

Pleasantly surprising is the pricing, the 73GB 15K.3 is quite a bit under $1000 and $939MSRP.

 

[Adul]

repost btw. I had it a couple of daysa go. but yes zdnet is off

 

[fkloster]

"Cheetah 15K.3
Seagate's Cheetah 15K.3 disc drive is the only 15K drive with the field-proven reliability that spans across two previous generations. The Cheetah 15K.3 delivers 35 percent more I/O's per second and a 29 percent faster minimum sustained transfer rate than 10K drives, allowing IT managers to serve more clients with greater performance using fewer drives, thereby effectively lowering TCO. Use of fewer drives results in greater system reliability as well as savings in hardware costs, space, power, cooling, and IT administration costs.

The Cheetah 15K.3 disc drive is available in the most often-required capacities of 18, 36, and 73 gigabytes. Seagate's Sound Barrier technology delivers whisper-quiet acoustics as low as 3.1 bels at idle." -Seagate

mmmmmmmmmmm....

 

[Pariah]

"I had it a couple of daysa go."

Ummm....? The press release is dated today. How did you post it a few days ago?

 

[BD231]

repost btw. I had it a couple of daysa go. but yes zdnet is off

You had a small peice, wich only accounted for the larger 73 gig drive, and the info was way off.

 

[Wolfsraider]

holy shiznat

sign me up

might be a nice b-day present for "yours truly" to give to himself lol




<< Seagate's latest Cheetah disc drives continue to have the highest reliability rating in the industry and are specifically designed to operate in 24-by-7-by-forever environments >>





<< The Cheetah 15K.3 disc drive is available in the most often-required capacities of 18, 36, and 73 gigabytes. Seagate's Sound Barrier technology delivers whisper-quiet acoustics as low as 3.1 bels at idle. >>





<< Model ST336753LC/LW/FC (36GB): $519 >>


two of these and a raid card ought to be sweet

 

[murphy55d]

When will we see faster IDE drives?

 

[Instagib]

Never



ONLY SCSI HAHAHAHA


THIS IS SCSI THIS IS THE WAY!

 

[BD231]

When will we see faster IDE drives?

Never



ONLY SCSI HAHAHAHA


THIS IS SCSI THIS IS THE WAY!

Sad but in a way true. SCSI is really the only way to go for fast seek times. Companys could make faster IDE drives, but they figure why do that when 7,200rpm drives are selling so well. All they want is $$$$$

 

[Instagib]

<< When will we see faster IDE drives?

Never



ONLY SCSI HAHAHAHA


THIS IS SCSI THIS IS THE WAY!

Sad but in a way true. SCSI is really the only way to go for fast seek times. Companys could make faster IDE drives, but they figure why do that when 7,200rpm drives are selling so well. All they want is $$$$$ >>



I was kiddin if ya hadden noticed. There are fast IDE drives now that can more than suffice for the home user.
We are not your average home user though.

 

[BD231]

I was kiddin if ya hadden noticed. There are fast IDE drives now that can more than suffice for the home user.
We are not your average home user though.

I most certainly didn't notice . Either way, 7,200rpm is slow in my books.

 

[fkloster]

I'm not very happy with the reliability of IDE drives of all natures...