Seagate Cheetah X15, Product Manual

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Cheetah X15 Product Manual, Rev. C 25
6.3 Power dissipation
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For drives using single-ended interface circuits, typical power dissipation under idle conditions is 10.32 watts
(35.2 BTUs per hour).
For drives using low voltage differential interface circuits, typical power dissipation under idle conditions is 10.7
watts (36.6 BTUs per hour).
To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following two I/O rate curves (see
Figures 7 and 8). Locate the typical I/O rate for a drive in your system on the horizontal axis and read the cor-
resp5 volt current, +12 volt current, and total watts on the vertical axis. To calculate BTUs per hour,
multiply watts by 3.4123.
Figure 7.
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DC current and power vs. input/output operations per second (SE)
Figure 8.
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DC current and power vs. input/output operations per second (LVD)
1.800
0 50 100
I/Os per Second
Amperes
150 300
0.400
0.600
0.800
1.000
11
Watts
13
15
17
1.200
1.600
1.400
200 250
5V A
12V A
Watts
1.800
0 50 100
I/Os per Second
Amperes
150 300
0.400
0.600
0.800
1.000
11
Watts
13
15
17
1.200
1.600
1.400
200 250
5V A
12V A
Watts