Seagate Cheetah NS.2 drives reduce costs for 3.5-inch Tier 1 solutions, helping to sustain business. This 450GB SAS drive reduces storage costs per GB and increases capacity per watt. The drive also includes Seagate PowerTrim technology, which dynamically optimizes drive power consumption at all levels of activity. The Cheetah NS.2 drive has over 20 percent lower power consumption than any 3.5-inch Tier 1 mission-critical drive.

The Cheetah NS.2 drive is leveraged from the highly successful Cheetah 15K.6 platform, and has the industry’s highest reliability rating, reducing drive replacement costs. This SAS drive supports 6-Gb/s transfer rates as part of the new SAS 2.0 feature set. SAS 2.0 was developed to provide additional signal and data integrity features to enable SAS to be ideally suited for use in high-end network storage applications.

Key Features and Benefits

• Lowest-power 3.5-inch Tier 1 drive (20 percent delta over runner-up)


• Highest reliability rating in the industry


• PowerTrim technology dynamically reduces power usage.


• Supports 6-Gb/s SAS 2.0