Seagate Technology has announced a new hard drive in its Cheetah family, the Cheetah 15K.6. The Cheetah hard drive is a high performance drive built for enterprise servers and storage systems.
The new Cheetah 15K.6 uses second generation perpendicular recording technology, with capacities of 450GB, 300GB and 147GB. In addition to that it has a 28% increase in sustained data transfer rates when compared to the previous generation, as the press release states, 164MB/sec.
It will begin to ship worldwide in Q1 2008. Seagate hasn't announced the price but this thing is going to cost a lot.