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ENERAL DESCRIPTION
Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives provide high performance, high capacity data storage for a variety of systems including
engineering workstations, network servers, mainframes, and supercomputers. Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives support 4-Gbit
Fibre Channel.
Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives support the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) and SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol as described
in the ANSI specifications, this document, and the
Fibre Channel Interface Manual
which describes the general interface
characteristics of this drive. Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives are classified as intelligent peripherals and provide level 2
conformance (highest level) with the ANSI SCSI-1 standard.
Cheetah 15K.7 FC SED models have provisions for “Security of Data at Rest” based on the standards defined by the Trusted
Computing Group (see www.trustedcomputinggroup.org).
Note.
Never disassemble the HDA and do not attempt to service items in the sealed enclosure (heads, media, actuator,
etc.) as this requires special facilities. The drive does not contain user-replaceable parts. Opening the HDA for
any reason voids your warranty.
Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives use a dedicated landing zone at the innermost radius of the media to eliminate the possibility of
destroying or degrading data by landing in the data zone. The heads automatically go to the landing zone when power is
removed from the drive.
An automatic shipping lock prevents potential damage to the heads and discs that results from movement during shipping
and handling. The shipping lock disengages and the head load process begins when power is applied to the drive.
The drives also use a high-performance actuator assembly with a low-inertia, balanced, patented, straight arm design that
provides excellent performance with minimal power dissipation.
