Seagate technology has announced that it will begin shipping its new Cheetah 15K.6 hard drive this month. As mentioned in the official press release, the Cheetah 15K.6 drive has a 3.5-inch form factor, with a 28% increase in sustained data transfer rates compared to previous generations and uses 61% less watts/GB at idle.

The Cheetah 15K.6 drive also ships in Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), which has become the mainstream enterprise interface of choice for companies including Super Micro Computer, Inc. "Many of our customers require top-of-the-line performance and system efficiency," said Charles Liang, CEO and president of Supermicro. "Integrating Seagate's Cheetah 15K.6 drive into our 85%+ high-efficiency, earth-friendly SuperServers and Server Building Block Solutions delivers not only superior performance, but also power savings, scalability and significantly reduced TCO."