Seagate Cheetah NS.2 10K 600GB 10000RPM SAS 6Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Bare Drive ST3600002SS

Seagate Cheetah NS.2 drives reduce costs for 3.5-inch Tier 1 solutions, helping to sustain business. It has up to 600 GB of capacity, which is the highest capacity of any Tier 1 mission-critical drive. This higher capacity reduces storage costs per GB and increases capacity per watt. The drive also includes Seagate Power Trim technology, which dynamically optimizes drive power consumption at all levels of activity. The Cheetah NS.2 drive has over 20 percent lower power consumption than any 3.5-inch Tier 1 mission-critical drive. The Cheetah NS.2 drive is leveraged from the highly successful Cheetah 15K.6 platform, and has the industry’s highest reliability rating, reducing drive replacement costs. The drive is available with a SAS (600 GB and 450 GB) or FC interface. The SAS drives will support 6-Gb/s transfer rates as part of the new SAS 2.0 feature set. SAS 2.0 was developed to provide additional signal and data integrity features to enable SAS to be ideally suited for use in high-end network storage applications. The Cheetah NS.2 drive is the second generation of Cheetah drives available as a Self-Encrypting Drive for designated OEMs, providing government-grade data security and instant secure erase for drives reused, recycled or returned for expired lease, repair or warranty.