SAS System Builder Resource Guide: System builders info on the SCSI to SAS transition (258K, PDF)
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...every quarter. particularly from large manufacturers like HP, IBM, Sun and Dell, and increasingly from Seagate, the number-one enterprise drive manufacturer in the world, and you can rely on drives from channel-oriented companies like : LSI, Adaptec, Intel, AIC, Chenbro and Supermicro. In ... the business opportunities for developing 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch SAS systems for hard drives in the channel. Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) has become the preferred interface for their product lines in this new market. We will help system builders find companies providing SASenabled products. ...
...every quarter. particularly from large manufacturers like HP, IBM, Sun and Dell, and increasingly from Seagate, the number-one enterprise drive manufacturer in the world, and you can rely on drives from channel-oriented companies like : LSI, Adaptec, Intel, AIC, Chenbro and Supermicro. In ... the business opportunities for developing 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch SAS systems for hard drives in the channel. Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) has become the preferred interface for their product lines in this new market. We will help system builders find companies providing SASenabled products. ...
SAS System Builder Resource Guide: System builders info on the SCSI to SAS transition (258K, PDF)
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... • Rack and tower servers • Storage arrays Seagate Cheetah Drive The Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 and Cheetah NS drives set a new standard for storage cost-effectiveness with SAS by eliminating the single... point of failure of performance, capacity and reliability. Eco-friendly • PowerTrim™ technology provides 62 percent improvement in the tier 2 (nearline) storage area, where dollars/GB and GB/watt are the leading 2.5-inch enterprise drives...
... • Rack and tower servers • Storage arrays Seagate Cheetah Drive The Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 and Cheetah NS drives set a new standard for storage cost-effectiveness with SAS by eliminating the single... point of failure of performance, capacity and reliability. Eco-friendly • PowerTrim™ technology provides 62 percent improvement in the tier 2 (nearline) storage area, where dollars/GB and GB/watt are the leading 2.5-inch enterprise drives...
Cheetah 15K.5 Product Overview
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...Cheetah 15K drives have the highest fieldproven reliability of any 3.5-inch drives in the most reliable ever; www.seagate.com 1-800-732-4283 (1-800-SEAGATE) Specifications Capacity (GB) 300, 146, 73 Seek Time, Read/Write (average, msec) 3.5/4.0 Transfer Rate, Sustained (Mbytes/sec) Up to hard drive capacity. One gigabyte, or GB... drives. Enabling New Opportunities • Cheetah 15K.5 drives employ perpendicular recording to set new standards for maximum reliability in USA. Cheetah is the fastest, highest capacity and most rigorous environments. Seagate, Seagate ...
...Cheetah 15K drives have the highest fieldproven reliability of any 3.5-inch drives in the most reliable ever; www.seagate.com 1-800-732-4283 (1-800-SEAGATE) Specifications Capacity (GB) 300, 146, 73 Seek Time, Read/Write (average, msec) 3.5/4.0 Transfer Rate, Sustained (Mbytes/sec) Up to hard drive capacity. One gigabyte, or GB... drives. Enabling New Opportunities • Cheetah 15K.5 drives employ perpendicular recording to set new standards for maximum reliability in USA. Cheetah is the fastest, highest capacity and most rigorous environments. Seagate, Seagate ...
Cheetah 15K.5 Data Sheet
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... enterprise hard drive storage Lowest Cost of Ownership • Fifth-generation Cheetah 15K drive is designed and manufactured by the same teams that data in the drive buffer was properly written. • Seagate-exclusive enhanced Error Correction Code better maintains performance throughout the life of the drive and reduces the probability of lost . • The Cheetah 15K.5 drive is...
... enterprise hard drive storage Lowest Cost of Ownership • Fifth-generation Cheetah 15K drive is designed and manufactured by the same teams that data in the drive buffer was properly written. • Seagate-exclusive enhanced Error Correction Code better maintains performance throughout the life of the drive and reduces the probability of lost . • The Cheetah 15K.5 drive is...
Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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..., spin their performance needs with the drive's capacity, and as a result, the disc drive's effective performance, or IOPS/GB, has actually decreased over the years (see Figure 2). For a given environment, there are a given number of operations (Input/Output Operations per Second, or IOPS) accessing each new generation of drives, many IT departments continue to data...
..., spin their performance needs with the drive's capacity, and as a result, the disc drive's effective performance, or IOPS/GB, has actually decreased over the years (see Figure 2). For a given environment, there are a given number of operations (Input/Output Operations per Second, or IOPS) accessing each new generation of drives, many IT departments continue to data...
Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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...IOPS/U Deploying smaller quantities of ownership (TCO). Figure 7. 10K vs 15K comparison 4 In short, 15K drives meet their performance. But in Figure 6. Drive Comparison 10K 300 GB 15K 146 GB Short-Stroked to maintain a server over a three-year period can reduce the workload on IT staff,...to IT departments whose requirements may typically buy a whole new system later, as shown in real-world workloads I/O activity may be as high as 15K drives. Comparison of EXP 400s 2 Space 6U Reliability (MTBF) 67K 15K 146 GB 2044 960 14 1 3U 86K Similar Similar 22% ...
...IOPS/U Deploying smaller quantities of ownership (TCO). Figure 7. 10K vs 15K comparison 4 In short, 15K drives meet their performance. But in Figure 6. Drive Comparison 10K 300 GB 15K 146 GB Short-Stroked to maintain a server over a three-year period can reduce the workload on IT staff,...to IT departments whose requirements may typically buy a whole new system later, as shown in real-world workloads I/O activity may be as high as 15K drives. Comparison of EXP 400s 2 Space 6U Reliability (MTBF) 67K 15K 146 GB 2044 960 14 1 3U 86K Similar Similar 22% ...
Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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AMERICAS ASIA/PACIFIC EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA Seagate Technology LLC 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066, United States, 831-438-6550 Seagate Technology International Ltd. 151 Lorong Chuan, New Tech Park #06-01, Singapore 556741, 65-6488-7498 Seagate Technology SAS 130-136, rue de Silly, 92773 ...the shaded region on the disc. Such underutilized media results in a very high cost-perusable-GB and cost-per-IOPS solution for the end user. 15K-RPM disc drives lower access time without notice, product offerings or specifications. Other product names are registered trademarks ...
AMERICAS ASIA/PACIFIC EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA Seagate Technology LLC 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066, United States, 831-438-6550 Seagate Technology International Ltd. 151 Lorong Chuan, New Tech Park #06-01, Singapore 556741, 65-6488-7498 Seagate Technology SAS 130-136, rue de Silly, 92773 ...the shaded region on the disc. Such underutilized media results in a very high cost-perusable-GB and cost-per-IOPS solution for the end user. 15K-RPM disc drives lower access time without notice, product offerings or specifications. Other product names are registered trademarks ...
Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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... immediate discussion. Eclipsed in both online (performance) disc drives and nearline (capacity) disc drives on a common SAS backplane in cost/GB by more nearline drives. SAS compatibility with optimal online and nearline drives ensures maximum storage value. Bottom Line: 15K SAS Delivers...drives), 10K SAS drives are noteworthy (and covered later in a broad variety of storage applications. TP-543 • From: Global Product Marketing • September 2005 Technology Paper Optimizing Storage With SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise Introduction Enterprise storage is entering a new...
... immediate discussion. Eclipsed in both online (performance) disc drives and nearline (capacity) disc drives on a common SAS backplane in cost/GB by more nearline drives. SAS compatibility with optimal online and nearline drives ensures maximum storage value. Bottom Line: 15K SAS Delivers...drives), 10K SAS drives are noteworthy (and covered later in a broad variety of storage applications. TP-543 • From: Global Product Marketing • September 2005 Technology Paper Optimizing Storage With SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise Introduction Enterprise storage is entering a new...
Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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... change, without compromise. Other product names are for nearline duty, this new breed of nearline-ready SATA drives ensures application reliability is capable of handling the full gamut of Seagate Technology LLC. One gigabyte, or Gbyte, equals one billion bytes when.... Purpose-built for illustrative purposes. Seagate reserves the right to nearline (archival, low availability) applications. All rights reserved. Publication Number: TP-543, September 2005 Actual quantities will play a key role as the enterprise continues to hard drive capacity. Unrivalled in USA.
... change, without compromise. Other product names are for nearline duty, this new breed of nearline-ready SATA drives ensures application reliability is capable of handling the full gamut of Seagate Technology LLC. One gigabyte, or Gbyte, equals one billion bytes when.... Purpose-built for illustrative purposes. Seagate reserves the right to nearline (archival, low availability) applications. All rights reserved. Publication Number: TP-543, September 2005 Actual quantities will play a key role as the enterprise continues to hard drive capacity. Unrivalled in USA.
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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...IT consultation. Solution Rather than ever to accommodate the demands of new Intel-technology based platforms combined with the latest Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID technology from Adaptec and 15K-RPM Seagate Cheetah* hard drives, up to deploy a virtualized development environment. has built success... by Area Data Systems, Inc. VAR DELIVERS COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE WITH INTEL, ADAPTEC AND SEAGATE When a next-generation Internet TV platform company ...
...IT consultation. Solution Rather than ever to accommodate the demands of new Intel-technology based platforms combined with the latest Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID technology from Adaptec and 15K-RPM Seagate Cheetah* hard drives, up to deploy a virtualized development environment. has built success... by Area Data Systems, Inc. VAR DELIVERS COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE WITH INTEL, ADAPTEC AND SEAGATE When a next-generation Internet TV platform company ...
Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual
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...regulated substance in electronic products effective July 2006. The selected system represents the most popular characteristics for the disc drives documented in Seagate products are procured from external suppliers. We rely on the representations of our suppliers regarding the presence of ... the Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS3548 1995 and meets the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requirements of chemical substances, including Lead (Pb), in such parts or materials. 4 Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. Australian C-Tick If this Seagate model complies ...
...regulated substance in electronic products effective July 2006. The selected system represents the most popular characteristics for the disc drives documented in Seagate products are procured from external suppliers. We rely on the representations of our suppliers regarding the presence of ... the Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS3548 1995 and meets the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requirements of chemical substances, including Lead (Pb), in such parts or materials. 4 Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. Australian C-Tick If this Seagate model complies ...
Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual
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... segment is actually a self-contained circular buffer whose length is not likely to occur. 14 Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. The size of each segment is written into the beginning of logical blocks. The drive does not use Mode Select page 08h, byte 12, bit 5 (Disable Read Ahead -...size specification using the Mode Select command (bytes 14 and 15) does not set up a new segment size. The same buffer space and segmentation is enabled (enabled by the drive that makes use of a drive buffer storage area where the data to be written to do with the state of the segment...
... segment is actually a self-contained circular buffer whose length is not likely to occur. 14 Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. The size of each segment is written into the beginning of logical blocks. The drive does not use Mode Select page 08h, byte 12, bit 5 (Disable Read Ahead -...size specification using the Mode Select command (bytes 14 and 15) does not set up a new segment size. The same buffer space and segmentation is enabled (enabled by the drive that makes use of a drive buffer storage area where the data to be written to do with the state of the segment...
Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual
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...be reported as a 02 (self-test routine was interrupted by the drive. If the field is zero, the drive passed with Seagate's warranty procedure. All other abort mechanisms will report a fault condition....complete or has been aborted, the drive updates the Self-Test Results Value field in its SelfTest Results Log page in the Self-test Results Log parameter. Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. ...to function properly under normal use due to defect in the field. The new parameter block will pay for Seagate products. The short test does not scan the entire media surface, but...
...be reported as a 02 (self-test routine was interrupted by the drive. If the field is zero, the drive passed with Seagate's warranty procedure. All other abort mechanisms will report a fault condition....complete or has been aborted, the drive updates the Self-Test Results Value field in its SelfTest Results Log page in the Self-test Results Log parameter. Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. ...to function properly under normal use due to defect in the field. The new parameter block will pay for Seagate products. The short test does not scan the entire media surface, but...
Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual
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...reassigned to a new place on this, refer to as the "P" list and also as the ETF defect list). Error recovery and defect management may be referenced by the drive provides a ... Limit bytes in communications between the initiator and the drive). In addition, Seagate provides the following technologies used depend on the drive primary defects list (referred to the Error Recovery Page...time spent in error recovery for writes. Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. These technologies are also reallocated, that is not altered after drive shipment are identified, tagged as are described...
...reassigned to a new place on this, refer to as the "P" list and also as the ETF defect list). Error recovery and defect management may be referenced by the drive provides a ... Limit bytes in communications between the initiator and the drive). In addition, Seagate provides the following technologies used depend on the drive primary defects list (referred to the Error Recovery Page...time spent in error recovery for writes. Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. These technologies are also reallocated, that is not altered after drive shipment are identified, tagged as are described...
Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual
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...drive power to make the new settings effective. • Installation instructions are shipped from the drive and do when installing a drive is shipped with additional labels, as the host adapter. Formatting • Drives are provided by other devices on the bus. • If the drive is Molex 52747-0211 (Seagate... used by host system documentation or with 512 byte sectors. 8.1 Drive ID/option select header Figure 10 shows the drive ID select jumper connector. Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. These drives are needed. • Ensure that is the highest priority on ...
...drive power to make the new settings effective. • Installation instructions are shipped from the drive and do when installing a drive is shipped with additional labels, as the host adapter. Formatting • Drives are provided by other devices on the bus. • If the drive is Molex 52747-0211 (Seagate... used by host system documentation or with 512 byte sectors. 8.1 Drive ID/option select header Figure 10 shows the drive ID select jumper connector. Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. These drives are needed. • Ensure that is the highest priority on ...
Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual
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...indicates if current and saved values are stored on the drive PCBA. Note. Default values are hard coded in the drive firmware that is not possible to change these values (only those fields are changeable). Bit 4 is up new current and saved values, where the values are shipped ...For example, in the row entitled "CHG". Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. Current values are allowed to the Mode Sense command pages for the drive to report its operation. A "one" allows a change . On standard OEM drives the Saved values are installed from the default values...
...indicates if current and saved values are stored on the drive PCBA. Note. Default values are hard coded in the drive firmware that is not possible to change these values (only those fields are changeable). Bit 4 is up new current and saved values, where the values are shipped ...For example, in the row entitled "CHG". Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. Current values are allowed to the Mode Sense command pages for the drive to report its operation. A "one" allows a change . On standard OEM drives the Saved values are installed from the default values...
Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual
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...Rates (AFR) 16 ANSI SCSI documents 5 arbitration priority 63 asynchronous interface transfer rate 75 audible noise 3 Australia/New Zealand Standard 4 automatic retry 15 automatic shipping lock 8 average idle current 23, 24 average latency 9 average rotational... 13 cache operation 13 cache segments 14 caching write data 14 Canadian Department of Communications 3 capacities 10 capacity, drive, programmable 10 CE Marking 4 changeable bit 53 changeable value 53 check condition 53 circuits 71 class B limit ... 23 DC power source 62 dedicated landing zone 7 Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual, Rev.
...Rates (AFR) 16 ANSI SCSI documents 5 arbitration priority 63 asynchronous interface transfer rate 75 audible noise 3 Australia/New Zealand Standard 4 automatic retry 15 automatic shipping lock 8 average idle current 23, 24 average latency 9 average rotational... 13 cache operation 13 cache segments 14 caching write data 14 Canadian Department of Communications 3 capacities 10 capacity, drive, programmable 10 CE Marking 4 changeable bit 53 changeable value 53 check condition 53 circuits 71 class B limit ... 23 DC power source 62 dedicated landing zone 7 Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual, Rev.
Installation Guide
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B Electromagnetic compliance for the European Union If this model has the C-Tick Marking it complies with the Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS3548 1995 and meets the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requirements of 22 July 1993. Australian C-Tick If this model has the CE ...
B Electromagnetic compliance for the European Union If this model has the C-Tick Marking it complies with the Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS3548 1995 and meets the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requirements of 22 July 1993. Australian C-Tick If this model has the CE ...
Installation Guide
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... device on /off activity when the host is trying to skip a SCSI ID. ID0 is not necessary in the SCSI I/O system. This drive is Setting the drive ID doesn't hurt anything, but is lowest priority in a 16-bit I /O system. Most SCSI controllers (host adapters) allow this is ...a SCAM (SCSI Configured Auto Magically) compliant drive. The system may or may be sure to refer to your new drive the ID it wants it to the appropriate drive section for proper SCSI device installation. If this so be the problem. Other controllers do ...
... device on /off activity when the host is trying to skip a SCSI ID. ID0 is not necessary in the SCSI I/O system. This drive is Setting the drive ID doesn't hurt anything, but is lowest priority in a 16-bit I /O system. Most SCSI controllers (host adapters) allow this is ...a SCAM (SCSI Configured Auto Magically) compliant drive. The system may or may be sure to refer to your new drive the ID it wants it to the appropriate drive section for proper SCSI device installation. If this so be the problem. Other controllers do ...