Seagate Technology has announced the Cheetah NS hard drive, developed for mission-critical enterprise network storage applications.
The Cheetah NS is a new 10K-rpm hard drive that claims to offer up to 33% more capacity at 400 gigabytes along with a 33% reduction in power and cooling requirements.
“The Cheetah NS, with its energy-saving PowerTrim technology, complements Seagate’s enterprise drive lineup to provide the high capacity, reliability, and performance required for network storage,” said Sherman Black, senior vice president and general manager, Seagate Enterprise Compute business. “From the highest transactional performers that include our Cheetah 15K.5 and Savvio 15K models, to drives built for nearline enterprise storage such as our Barracuda ES, Seagate continues to deliver the premier storage solutions for a wide range of enterprise needs.”
The Cheetah NS is also available in advanced interfaces, 3Gb/sec Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or 4Gb/sec Fibre Channel.