Now, in just a few short years since its introduction, total shipments of 10K-rpm Cheetahs have exceeded 15 million units, more 10K-rpm drives than all its competitors combined.
Seagate’s Cheetah drives are positioned to satisfy the performance and reliability requirements associated with key growing enterprise markets, said Dave Reinsel, senior analyst at IDC. IDC sees storage becoming increasingly consolidated into centrally managed storage solutions that will demand faster, cooler, and quieter drives – performance metrics Seagate continues to optimize in the Cheetah platform.
Even from the initial development of the very first Cheetah, its role was clear: to meet our customers’ demand for the fastest, most reliable disc drives in the world, said Joel Stead, Seagate’s senior vice president, Worldwide Sales and Marketing. Since their introduction, all of the major OEMs have qualified and incorporated Seagate Cheetahs for use in their systems. It is this combination of fulfilling our customers’ needs, on-time delivery, and having superior technology leadership that has helped make Seagate’s Cheetah family of disc drives the most popular Enterprise drives in the world.
