C
HEETAH
15K.7 SAS P
RODUCT
M
ANUAL
, R
EV
. F
2
1.0
S
COPE
This manual describes Seagate Technology
®
LLC, Cheetah
®
15K.7 SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) disk drives.
Cheetah 15K.7 drives support the SAS Protocol specifications to the extent described in this manual. The
SAS Interface
Manual
(part number 100293071) describes the general SAS characteristics of Cheetah 15K.7 and other Seagate SAS
drives. The Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) Users Guide, part number 100515636 describes the interface, general operation
and security features available on SED drives.
Note.
Previous generations of Seagate Self-Encrypting Drive models were called Full Disk Encryption (FDE) models
before a differentiation between drive-based encryption and other forms of encryption was necessary.
Note.
The Self-Encrypting Drive models indicated on the cover of this product manual have provisions for “Security of
Data at Rest” based on the standards defined by the Trusted Computing Group (see www.trustedcomputing-
group.org).
For more information on FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certification see Section 7.0 on page 30.
For product certification status visit -
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/1401vend.htm
.
Table 1:
M
ODEL
N
UMBER
C
APACITY
S
ELF
-E
NCRYPTING
D
RIVE
(SED)
FIPS 140-2 L
EVEL
2
CERTIFIED
ST3600057SS
600GB
No
No
ST3600957SS
Yes
No
ST3600857SS
Yes
Yes
ST3450857SS
450GB
No
No
ST3450757SS
Yes
No
ST3300457SS
Yes
Yes
ST3300657SS
300GB
No
No
ST3300557SS
Yes
No
ST3300457SS
Yes
Yes
