Seagate Releases Cheetah 15K.6, Maxtor OneTouch 4

The past few months have been great to the storage market, but few of the major announcements have come from Seagate. This comes as a stark contrast to last year, when they released the largest notebook and desktop drives available at the time. They are now finally striking back however, with their new Cheetah 15K.6 server drive and also new Maxtor OneTouch 4 products.

The Cheetah drive is a high-end server solution, offering 15,000RPM speeds, but the 28% increase in sustained data transfer in what’s important. It’s available in both SAS and FC offerings. Also launched are new Maxtor OneTouch external drives, in densities between 250GB and 1TB for the top OneTouch Plus offering. If it’s designed similarly to the Seagate FreeAgent Pro that we reviewed back in April, it should prove to be one heck of a product.

Seagate also introduced a new drive for digital video recording devices. The fourth generation DB35 series hard drives is now available with up to 1TB of storage space allowing recording of up to 200 hours of HD programming. Entry level hard drives of 250GB in the D35 series allow the storage of up to 50 hours of HD programming. The D35 series is also designed to operate inside of DVR systems without the need for cooling fans, which allows manufacturers to make quieter systems. The DB35 drives will be available in Q1 of 2008.

Source: DailyTech