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Enhance your desktop computer with more internal storage space thanks to a Seagate Cheetah T10. These Seagate Cheetahs are bare drives with features geared toward building or external use. The ST3300555SS gives you more storage for your photos, videos, and other files. Plenty of memory means you can keep what is important. However, that’s not all. The 300GB SAS drives give you faster access to those files as well. The Cheetah was among the first commercial 10k or 15K hard drives on the market. It operates at high speeds beyond conventional 5400 and 7200RPM hard drive speeds. The Seagate hard drives have been named specifically for this defining feature. The accessories included with these drives will depend on the packaging. The Seagate 300GB Cheetah T10 typically comes with the owner’s manual and a software disc. Seagate has configured the ST3300555SS drive for the 3.5-inch form factor. This form factor is generally associated with desktop computers and 3.5-inch drive bays. This model weighs just under 2 pounds and measures 9.7 by 8.9 by 2.7 inches. This hard drive will fit whether you have a large PC tower or a small HTPC case. An alternative to internal installation is an external HDD enclosure. Such enclosures enable you to use a hard disk in an external and portable manner. The Seagate T10 has an SAS interface. SAS stands for Serial Attached SCSI. SCSI stands for Small Computer System Interface. SAS is an alternative to SATA that provides certain performance benefits. This is particularly so when you couple a high RPM with a relatively low capacity. It’s important to note that this hard drive requires an enclosure with an SAS or SAS/SATA connection. Many SAS enclosures are compatible with the drive. This 300GB SAS hard drive requires a power source as well. In a desktop PC, you can power it via a Molex connector from the PSU. In an enclosure, the power will generally be delivered via USB and/or connection to a wall outlet.The brand name for this hard drive line is reserved for hard drives that operate at 10K or 15K RPM. In the case of the Seagate ST3300555SS, it spins at 15,000 rotations per minute. That indicates how many times the platter can complete a 360-degree rotation in 60 seconds. The faster platters can spin, the faster hard drives are able to read and write data. Thus, 10k or 15k provides a great deal of read-write speed. This Seagate model also has a 16MB cache memory. That cache facilitates the transfer of data from the platter to the system. The 16MB of cache memory supplements the unit’s speed.These Seagate 300GB SAS drives feature eight read/write data heads. The average read speed is 3.5 milliseconds, and the average write speed is 4.0 milliseconds. This hard drive achieves a minimum sustainable disc transfer of 55.5 MB/s and a maximum of 93 MB/s. The SAS interface can handle up to 300 MB/s per port. Start time is less than three seconds after DC power is provided. It can also be fully operational from standby faster than that. Standard OEM drives are formatted to 512 bytes per block.

Product Identifiers

BrandSeagate

MPNST3300555SS

UPC0102645903330

ModelCheetah T10

eBay Product ID (ePID)108773381

Product Key Features

Form Factor3.5 in

FeaturesHot Swap, Background Media Scan (Bms)

Dimensions

Weight2lbs.

Depth9.6in

Height2.5in

Width8.9in

Additional Product Features

PlatformPC Products

EnclosureInternal

Storage Capacity300GB

Drive InterfaceSas

Cache16MB

Rotation Speed15000RPM

TypeHDD

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Seagate Cheetah T10 300GB Internal 15000RPM 3.5" (ST3300555SS) HDD