Data Sheet

Cheetah NS
Optimum capacity at the lowest power
consumption with superior 10K-RPM
performance

400 GB and 300 GB • 10K RPM • 4-Gb/s FC •

3-Gb/s SAS (400 GB)

Key Advantages
• 400 GB of transactional storage enables 33 percent more
capacity in a single drive.
• Smaller platters and 10K spindle speed allow 33 percent
savings in operational power.
• The Seagate ® Cheetah® NS drive design is based on the
15K-RPM platform, allowing up to 21 percent improvement
in transactional performance over standard 10K drives.
• 10x improvement in unrecoverable error rate at 1x10E16
• The industry’s highest reliability in the 3.5-inch form factor

Best-Fit Applications
• Network attached storage (NAS)
• High-capacity, performance and application servers
• Clustered systems
• Medical imaging, CAD, simulation
• Rich media content storage—audio, video, image
• Collaboration—email, messaging
• Infrastructure—Web, print, file
Cheetah NS
Optimum capacity at the lowest power consumption
with superior 10K-RPM performance

Seagate Is the Trusted Leader

in Enterprise Storage
Specifications 400 GB1 300 GB1
Model Number ST3400755FC ST3300955FC
Using perpendicular recording, the
• ST3400755SS
400-GB Cheetah NS drive provides 33 Capacity

percent more capacity than standard Formatted 512 Kbytes/Sector (GB) 400 300
External Transfer Rate (Gb/s)
10K-RPM drives while offering best-in- 4-Gb/s Fibre Channel 4.0 4.0
class transactional performance and a 3-Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 3.0 —
substantial reduction in operating power. Performance
Spindle Speed (RPM) 10,075 10,075
A tenfold improvement in unrecoverable
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Average Latency (ms) 2.98 2.98
error rate together with a 1.4M-hour MTBF Seek Time
provides unsurpassed reliability for the Average Read/Write (ms) 3.9/4.2 3.9/4.2
network storage market. Track-to-Track Read/Write (ms) 0.35 0.35
Transfer Rate
Maximum Internal (Mb/s) 1211 1211
Seagate Makes the Best Even Better With Maximum Sustained (MB/s) 97 97
a 5-Year Limited Warranty Cache, Multisegmented (MB) 16 16
Reliability/Data Integrity
Seagate offers the industry’s leading warranty Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF, hours) 1.4 million 1.4 million
to demonstrate our commitment to product Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 0.62% 0.62%
Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read 1 sector per 10E16 1 sector per 10E16
reliability and our customers’ success. Every
Error Control/Correction (ECC) 10 bit 10 bit
Seagate internal hard drive is covered under Interface ports Dual Dual
a five-year limited warranty. Power Management
Typical (W) 12.1 11.8
Idle Average (W) 8.1 7.6
Seagate Global Customer Support Environmental
Temperature (°C)
Get presales and technical support at
•
Operating 5 to 55 5 to 55
support.seagate.com. Nonoperating –40 to 70 –40 to 70
Visit our knowledge base for answers
• Shock (Gs)
Operating: 2 ms 60 60
to common support questions. Nonoperating: 2 ms 250 250
Find documentation for current and
• Acoustics Idle (bels—sound power) 3.2 3.0
Rotational Vibration (Rad/s2) 21 21
legacy drives.
Physical
Utilize our online troubleshooting and
• Height (in/mm) 1.02/26.11 1.02/26.11
diagnostic tools. Width (in/mm) 4.0/101.85 4.0/101.85
Depth (in/mm) 5.78/147 5.78/147
Download DiscWizard™ to help migrate
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Weight (lb/g) 1.5/0.771 1.5/0.771
data from an older drive. Warranty
Seagate also offers multi-lingual phone,
• Limited warranty (years) 5 5
email and chat support. 1
One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity.

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Copyright © 2007 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in USA. Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Cheetah
and DiscWizard are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property
of their respective owners. One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. Seagate reserves the right to change,
without notice, product offerings or specifications. DS1628.1-0706US, June 2007