Product Technical Specification Sheet

General Overview

• Brand: Dell

• Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM): Seagate Technology LLC (Cheetah 15K.7 Series)

• Model Number: ST3600057SS

• Seagate Part Number (P/N): 9FN066-150

• Target Environment: Enterprise Tier-1 Servers, High-Performance Storage Arrays (SAN/NAS), High-Transaction Databases, Mission-Critical Corporate Infrastructure.

Technical Specifications

Configuration & Capacity

Parameter	Specification
Form Factor	3.5-inch Large Form Factor (LFF)
Formatted Capacity	600 GB
Interface Type	Dual-Port Serial Attached SCSI (SAS-2.0)
Interface Speed	6.0 Gbps (Backward compatible with 3Gbps SAS)
Sector Architecture	Native 512-byte block format (512n)
Hot-Swap Carrier	Shipped standard on a Dell PowerEdge Gen11/Gen12/Gen13 3.5″ drive caddy (depending on specific enterprise batch provisioning)

Performance Metrics

Parameter	Specification
Spindle Speed	15,000 RPM
Data Buffer (Cache)	16 MB
Average Latency	2.0 ms
Sustained Transfer Rate	122 MB/s to 204 MB/s (Inner to Outer track boundary)
Max Interface Burst Rate	600 MB/s per port

Reliability & Availability

Parameter	Specification
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)	1.6 Million Hours
Annualized Failure Rate (AFR)	0.55%
Availability / Duty Cycle	24/7/365 Continuous Tier-1 Operations
Unrecoverable Read Error Rate	1 sector error per $10^{16}$ bits read

Power Requirements

Parameter	Specification
Voltage Requirement	+5 VDC ($\pm 5\%$) and +12 VDC ($\pm 5\%$)
Typical Op Power (Read/Write)	~14.6 Watts
Typical Idle Power Draw	~8.7 Watts

Physical Dimensions (Drive Mechanism Only)

Parameter	Specification
Height Profile (Max)	26.11 mm (1.028 inches)
Width Profile (Max)	101.85 mm (4.010 inches)
Depth / Length (Max)	147.00 mm (5.787 inches)
Maximum Weight	686 g (1.511 lbs)

Environmental Limits

Condition	Operating	Non-Operating
Ambient Temperature	5°C to 55°C (41°F to 131°F)	-40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 158°F)
Shock (Half-Sine Wave)	30G / 11ms	300G / 2ms
Vibration (Random)	0.5G RMS (5Hz to 500Hz)	2.4G RMS (5Hz to 500Hz)