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Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 SAS 15K RPM HDD Reviews
Benchmark Reviews and LanOC Reviews have tested the high-end Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 600GB, a 15,000RPM hard drive utilizing the 6.0Gbps SAS 2.0 interface.
Let's see what they had to say:
- Benchmark Reviews:
"In conclusion, the Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 SAS drive has demonstrated a dominance over existing Enterprise storage solutions and improved file transfer speeds at the same time as it saves electrical energy costs. While Seagate's Cheetah is an endangered product line because of fast-encroaching SSD technology, it's not quite extinct. Corporate servers are a long ways from full migration to a yet-unproven long-term Solid State technology, and in the mean time there are few options as good as the 15K.7 series. Fortunately for Seagate, even fewer can compete with the bandwidth performance and lifetime reliability. If your server is mission critical and absolutely must maintain 100% storage uptime, then the Seagate Cheetah 15K.7-series is a the ideal solution."
Click here to read the full review.
- LanOC Reviews:
"So after taking a look at the Seagate Cheetah NS.2 and Cheetah 15K.7 I can say one thing without a doubt, these are two of the fastest hard drives we have seen. In fact the 15K.7 is just short of SSD performance with the reliability that only 53 years of development can give you. The best enterprise class drive gets you a 600 gig hard drive with PowerTrim technology that provides up to a 21% improvement over last generations watts/Gb at idle. That means you can have your cake and eat it too, that is as long as your cake doesn't involve a cheap price ;)."
Click here to read the full review.
Frankly, this is an enterprise-class hard drive, so unless you own a server/workstation motherboard, or an ASUS P6T Deluxe/OC Palm Edition, it's unlikely that your system even supports the SAS interface. If your motherboard does have SAS ports, then you are still looking around $680-700 USD for this particular hard drive.
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