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The Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 hard drive is both an internal and external storage system. With a high data capacity and a speedy transfer rate, it saves your information quickly. Keep up to 146.8GB of emails, business documents, and transactions on laptop or desktop computers. This fifth-generation Seagate Cheetah 15K HDDs are reliable 3.5-inch drives. They have a non-recoverable error rate improved by a factor of 10 compared the previous generations. The HDD contains the Seagate-exclusive IRAW process that helps verify during idle times that the data has been written properly. This high-performance product offers 15,000 RPM spindle speeds with a transfer rate of 300 Mbps of data. Users can use the Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 internally by connecting their computer using a SCSI, SCSI Ultra 320, or the SAS Interface.The Seagate ST3146855SS is fully compatible with the Serial Attached SCSI standard. Thus, you'll be able to take advantage of everything this interface has to offer. Your system software will be able to transfer files at the highest speed possible for your drive bay. Performance numbers grow with the type of drive bay used. This hard drive is forward compatible with new hardware standards, which also makes it useful for RAID assemblies. You can also string more than one 15K Cheetah hard drive together to get a logical disk with nearly 300GB of storage. RPM numbers stay the same when a drive is used in an array.If you're replacing an existing SATA SSD, then you can easily attach an adapter to these drives. They come ready to work with IBM, Western Digital, and Dell PowerEdge servers based on the SAS standard. Big iron system administrators can easily create hard links on these drives. This makes it easy to use one as the main hard disk for a commercial UNIX implementation. It's fully compatible with open-source technology solutions as well.Large form factor Dell machines running Linux or FreeBSD to serve mobile content to client computers use the unit easily. Mount this storage device to help your server manage the load. The generous 16MB cache helps ensure app download speeds remain consistently high. The OS hard disk cache will buffer most of the data clients work with. For this reason, you could also use them to serve Web shopping carts.Big iron administrators can take advantage of the 3Gb/s transfer rate. It makes this a perfect disk for running virtual machines. Operators of large IBM machines can easily partition the disk into separate volumes. One could be used for an IBM AS/400 installation while others can run software from various categories. You can keep performance high even if you split the 146GB capacity between four separate primary partitions.It's compatible with various tray-shaped accessories, which can let you use this as a hot swap disk. You can slide this volume in and out of server racks as long as it's unmounted. This can give you the ability to transfer many files between machines. You can even place an install image on the platters so you can use it to configure various servers.