VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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... of virtualization. New multi-core processors from Intel, high-performance RAID controllers from Adaptec and 15K-RPM drives from Adaptec and 15K-RPM Seagate Cheetah* hard drives, up to speed application development, they require sufficient performance and I /O throughput and reliability demands of any single PC or...coming of new Intel-technology based platforms combined with the latest Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID technology from Seagate combine seamlessly in -class components from Intel, Adaptec and Seagate. In the past, developers and IT staffs have met this situation as an ...
... of virtualization. New multi-core processors from Intel, high-performance RAID controllers from Adaptec and 15K-RPM drives from Adaptec and 15K-RPM Seagate Cheetah* hard drives, up to speed application development, they require sufficient performance and I /O throughput and reliability demands of any single PC or...coming of new Intel-technology based platforms combined with the latest Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID technology from Seagate combine seamlessly in -class components from Intel, Adaptec and Seagate. In the past, developers and IT staffs have met this situation as an ...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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...OS support: Microsoft Windows*, Linux* Open Source, Sun, VMWare* Features: • Broad range of capacities-from 73 GB to 450 GB • Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Ultra320 SCSI, 4-Gb/s Fibre Channel interfaces • Sustained data rates up to 162 MB/s • Seek times as fast as 3.5 ms...® Quad-Core E5430 2.66 GHz CPU Speed: FSB: L2 Cache: Architecture: SPECIFICATIONS 2.66 GHz 1333 MHz 12 MB 45nm Intel® Server System 1560SFHS Adaptec 3405 PCI-e 4-port Unified Serial RAID Controller Seagate Cheetah* 15,000 RPM Hard Drives Supported Processors: Quad-Core Intel® Xeon®...
...OS support: Microsoft Windows*, Linux* Open Source, Sun, VMWare* Features: • Broad range of capacities-from 73 GB to 450 GB • Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Ultra320 SCSI, 4-Gb/s Fibre Channel interfaces • Sustained data rates up to 162 MB/s • Seek times as fast as 3.5 ms...® Quad-Core E5430 2.66 GHz CPU Speed: FSB: L2 Cache: Architecture: SPECIFICATIONS 2.66 GHz 1333 MHz 12 MB 45nm Intel® Server System 1560SFHS Adaptec 3405 PCI-e 4-port Unified Serial RAID Controller Seagate Cheetah* 15,000 RPM Hard Drives Supported Processors: Quad-Core Intel® Xeon®...
Cheetah 15K.7 Product Overview
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...GB of capacity, which dynamically optimizes drive power consumption at all levels of Seagate Technology LLC or one trillion bytes. The drive reduces RAID rebuild times while minimizing reliability risks. SAS 2.0 was developed to provide additional signal and data integrity features to enable SAS to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB... Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 drives reduce costs for expired lease, repair or warranty. *Requires TCG-compliant host or controller support Specifications Capacity Interface Spindle Speed Reliability Cache Form factor 600, 450, 300 GB 6 Gb/s SAS 2.0, 4 Gb/s...
...GB of capacity, which dynamically optimizes drive power consumption at all levels of Seagate Technology LLC or one trillion bytes. The drive reduces RAID rebuild times while minimizing reliability risks. SAS 2.0 was developed to provide additional signal and data integrity features to enable SAS to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB... Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 drives reduce costs for expired lease, repair or warranty. *Requires TCG-compliant host or controller support Specifications Capacity Interface Spindle Speed Reliability Cache Form factor 600, 450, 300 GB 6 Gb/s SAS 2.0, 4 Gb/s...
Cheetah 15K.7 Data Sheet
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...Ownership • Seventh-generation Seagate® Cheetah 15K.7 drive is lost data. • The third generation of Seagate-exclusive Background Media Scan proactively scans the media for current and legacy drives. • Utilize our...drives Highest Reliability • Seagate continues to common support questions. • Find documentation for potential defects during firmware switch. Specifications 600 GB1 450 GB1 300 GB1 Model Number Capacity Formatted 512 Kbytes/Sector (GB) External Transfer Rate (MB/s) 4-Gb/s Fibre Channel 6-Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI Performance Spindle Speed...
...Ownership • Seventh-generation Seagate® Cheetah 15K.7 drive is lost data. • The third generation of Seagate-exclusive Background Media Scan proactively scans the media for current and legacy drives. • Utilize our...drives Highest Reliability • Seagate continues to common support questions. • Find documentation for potential defects during firmware switch. Specifications 600 GB1 450 GB1 300 GB1 Model Number Capacity Formatted 512 Kbytes/Sector (GB) External Transfer Rate (MB/s) 4-Gb/s Fibre Channel 6-Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI Performance Spindle Speed...
Enterprise-Optimized 6Gb/s SAS Rivals Fibre Channel Performance and Scalability at Lower Cost
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... length extends connectivity by multiple initiators. DFE counteracts the signal attenuation effects that make 6Gb/s SAS so effective in enterprise data centers, where drives can be repeatedly accessed by 66 percent supporting networked storage expansion beyond zoning and expander self-..., this change in a loss of cabinet shielding 6-Gb/s Transfer Rate efficiency due to the expander. predecessor, 6Gb/s SAS delivers the speed necessary to reduce EMIrelated issues. Achieving this may result in frequency, 6Gb/s SAS employs spread spectrum clocking (SSC), a slow-frequency...
... length extends connectivity by multiple initiators. DFE counteracts the signal attenuation effects that make 6Gb/s SAS so effective in enterprise data centers, where drives can be repeatedly accessed by 66 percent supporting networked storage expansion beyond zoning and expander self-..., this change in a loss of cabinet shielding 6-Gb/s Transfer Rate efficiency due to the expander. predecessor, 6Gb/s SAS delivers the speed necessary to reduce EMIrelated issues. Achieving this may result in frequency, 6Gb/s SAS employs spread spectrum clocking (SSC), a slow-frequency...
Enterprise-Optimized 6Gb/s SAS Rivals Fibre Channel Performance and Scalability at Lower Cost
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... becoming increasingly commonplace through their use on small form factor (SFF) 2.5-inch hard drives. Such compatibility is key to ensuring that rivals fibre channel. 6Gb/s SAS delivers a far simpler and more storage capacity and speed, the steep cost and complexity of Seagate Technology LLC in USA. Printed in the United States and/or other countries...
... becoming increasingly commonplace through their use on small form factor (SFF) 2.5-inch hard drives. Such compatibility is key to ensuring that rivals fibre channel. 6Gb/s SAS delivers a far simpler and more storage capacity and speed, the steep cost and complexity of Seagate Technology LLC in USA. Printed in the United States and/or other countries...
Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual
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...hard drive capacity. Typical access times are measured under nominal conditions of temperature, voltage, and horizontal orientation as measured on page 56 and the SAS ...10.4.1, "SAS physical interface" on a representative sample of Cheetah 15K.7 drives. 4.1 Internal drive characteristics Drive capacity ST3600057SS ST3450857SS ST3300657SS ST3600957SS ST3450757SS ST3300557SS 600 450 300 Gbytes (formatted... speed 15k 15k 15k RPM Avg rotational latency 2.0 2.0 2.0 msec *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to data = access time + latency time. 8 Cheetah 15K.7 SAS ...
...hard drive capacity. Typical access times are measured under nominal conditions of temperature, voltage, and horizontal orientation as measured on page 56 and the SAS ...10.4.1, "SAS physical interface" on a representative sample of Cheetah 15K.7 drives. 4.1 Internal drive characteristics Drive capacity ST3600057SS ST3450857SS ST3300657SS ST3600957SS ST3450757SS ST3300557SS 600 450 300 Gbytes (formatted... speed 15k 15k 15k RPM Avg rotational latency 2.0 2.0 2.0 msec *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to data = access time + latency time. 8 Cheetah 15K.7 SAS ...
Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual
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...the last 20 self-tests performed by the DST. For example, the seek tests and on track • Drive cannot read operations. The integrity of three segments: an electrical test segment, a servo test segment, and ... of the log page. extended These testing options are described in the Self-test Results Log page. Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual, Rev. Short test (Function Code: 001b) The purpose of the test. The anticipated length...8226; Motor will not spin • Motor will not lock to speed • Servo will not lock on -track operations test the positioning mechanism.
...the last 20 self-tests performed by the DST. For example, the seek tests and on track • Drive cannot read operations. The integrity of three segments: an electrical test segment, a servo test segment, and ... of the log page. extended These testing options are described in the Self-test Results Log page. Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual, Rev. Short test (Function Code: 001b) The purpose of the test. The anticipated length...8226; Motor will not spin • Motor will not lock to speed • Servo will not lock on -track operations test the positioning mechanism.
Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual
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... Speed Negotiation completes but must be maintained after the drive signifies that its power-up sequence has been completed and that the drive ...read): Typical DC Maximum DC Maximum DC (peak) Peak operating current (sequential write): Typical DC Maximum DC Maximum DC (peak) ST3300657SS ST3300557SS 3 Gbit mode Notes (Amps) (Amps) +5V +12V [2] [5] ±5% ±5% [2] [1] [7] 0.34 0.58... before the drive has received the Notify Spinup primitive. 22 Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual, Rev. Instantaneous +12V current peaks will exceed these values. Table 15: 300 GB DC power ...
... Speed Negotiation completes but must be maintained after the drive signifies that its power-up sequence has been completed and that the drive ...read): Typical DC Maximum DC Maximum DC (peak) Peak operating current (sequential write): Typical DC Maximum DC Maximum DC (peak) ST3300657SS ST3300557SS 3 Gbit mode Notes (Amps) (Amps) +5V +12V [2] [5] ±5% ±5% [2] [1] [7] 0.34 0.58... before the drive has received the Notify Spinup primitive. 22 Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual, Rev. Instantaneous +12V current peaks will exceed these values. Table 15: 300 GB DC power ...
Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual
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...values are ones, all of the bits in flash E-PROM (nonvolatile memory) on reset, hard reset, or Bus Device Reset message. 4. Since all of mode parameters: 1. Note. Parameters...following tables may have unique firmware with a Mode Select command before the drive achieves operating speed and is not changeable. Only parameter values that bytes 06, 07, 09,...zero (0) indicates the value is "ready." Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual, Rev. On drives requiring unique saved values, the required unique saved values are not changeable by the drive in columns 5 and 6 (bytes 04...
...values are ones, all of the bits in flash E-PROM (nonvolatile memory) on reset, hard reset, or Bus Device Reset message. 4. Since all of mode parameters: 1. Note. Parameters...following tables may have unique firmware with a Mode Select command before the drive achieves operating speed and is not changeable. Only parameter values that bytes 06, 07, 09,...zero (0) indicates the value is "ready." Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual, Rev. On drives requiring unique saved values, the required unique saved values are not changeable by the drive in columns 5 and 6 (bytes 04...
Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual
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... rotational latency 8 B Background Media Scan 39 backpanel 59 Band 0 35 BandMasterX 34 BMS 39 buffer data 6 space 10 busy status 55 C cache operation 10 Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual, Rev. B cache segments 10 caching write data 11 Canadian Department of Communications 2 capacity unformatted 8 CBC 34 check condition status 55 chemical pollutants 32... 35 defect and error management 37 defects 37 Deferred Auto-Reallocation 40 deferred error handling 55 DEK 34 description 5 DFE 61 dimensions 33 disc rotation speed 8 drive 32 drive characteristics 8 Drive Locking 35 65
... rotational latency 8 B Background Media Scan 39 backpanel 59 Band 0 35 BandMasterX 34 BMS 39 buffer data 6 space 10 busy status 55 C cache operation 10 Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual, Rev. B cache segments 10 caching write data 11 Canadian Department of Communications 2 capacity unformatted 8 CBC 34 check condition status 55 chemical pollutants 32... 35 defect and error management 37 defects 37 Deferred Auto-Reallocation 40 deferred error handling 55 DEK 34 description 5 DFE 61 dimensions 33 disc rotation speed 8 drive 32 drive characteristics 8 Drive Locking 35 65
Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual
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... and return information 18 reporting actual retry count 55 reservation conflict status 56 resonance 29 return information 18 RNG 35 rotation speed 8 S safety 2 SAS interface 59 physical interface 56 task management functions 43 SAS documents 4 SAS Interface Manual 2, 4 SCSI interface commands supported 44 Secure ID 34 security partitions 34 Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual, Rev. B 67
... and return information 18 reporting actual retry count 55 reservation conflict status 56 resonance 29 return information 18 RNG 35 rotation speed 8 S safety 2 SAS interface 59 physical interface 56 task management functions 43 SAS documents 4 SAS Interface Manual 2, 4 SCSI interface commands supported 44 Secure ID 34 security partitions 34 Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual, Rev. B 67