SlashGear Japan
These are 3.5” hard drives that would only end up in a home computer if it were and uber-l33t gaming computer. That’s to say they are fast, expensive, and only have Fibre Channel or SAS connection options.
Those two connection options may not be something you’re too familiar with, but I am pretty sure FC is still the fastest connection for a hard drive out there, and SAS stands for Serial as SCSI, so basically it connects a SCSI hard drive via a serial connection. This particular new model that is shipping is offering up a 28% increase in sustained data transfer rates compared to older models, that means it goes great in servers, especially file servers.
You can get it in 450GB, 300GB, and 147GB capacities. If you are wondering why the capacities are so weird its because once you hit the 10k RPM mark on a hard drive, from there up, for some reason unknown to me, the disk sizes get skewed. No word on price or availability and I couldn’t find them on Google, so they must just be shipping from the factory.
[via PCLaunches]
One Response to “Cheetah 15K.6 hard drives from Seagate shipping – not quite as cheesy as Chester”
Crazy_Taco May 30, 2008
The reason you can’t find these drives anywhere is that it says on Seagate’s website they are being made available to major OEMs (original equipment manufacturer) only. So if you were Dell, Seagate would sell you one, but if you are Joe User, they aren’t for sale to you. That’s not to say that there might not be an OEM shop selling them directly (possibly in product upgrade pages), but it certainly cuts down on the purchasing options, and no doubt jacks up the price as well.
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