Seagate Cheetah 10k.6 Review
Reviewed by Andrew Chalfant on 05.20.2003
Provided by Seagate

Introduction:

Seagate is the largest producer of magnetic storage products, so it is no surprise that it is the leader in the production of high performance SCSI drives. Seagate is now on to their sixth generation of 10k rpm SCSI drives, which is no longer the fastest spindle speed. However, with a data density that claims 36 gigabytes per platter, the Cheetah 10k.6 series boasts a maximum storage capacity of 146 gigabytes - couple these specifics with claimed 4.7 ms seek times and an Ultra320 interface, Seagate has created an extremely attractive hard drive.

Seagate Technology:

Seagate was founded in 1979, and is based in Scotts Valley, CA. Seagate was the first company to build a 5.25" HDD, and has been a leader in magnetic storage ever since.

In FY2002 Seagate shipped:

1,959 Petabytes of ESG/PSG storage

10.2 million Enterprise drives, the share leader by 6.2 million drives

More Enterprise drives than Maxtor, Fujitsu and IBM combined

1.2 million 15,000 RPM drives

44.8 million personal storage drives

Over 2.4 million drives into CE applications

Seagate's ESG/PSG storage revenue in FY2002 was:

33% greater than Maxtor

178% greater than Western Digital

More than IBM, Fujitsu, and Samsung combined