Seagate ST3600057SS SAS Three Point Five Inch Hard Drive

Seagate ST3600057SS is a 600GB, 15,000 RPM SAS hard drive in a 3.5-inch form factor, engineered for enterprise storage workloads requiring fast random I/O and low latency. As part of the Cheetah 15K.7 family, it targets servers and storage arrays that demand consistent throughput for databases, virtualization hosts, and high-availability configurations. Key specifications include 3.5" form factor, 600GB capacity, 15K RPM spindle speed, and a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface with up to 6Gb/s transfer rates. The drive uses four platters and eight read/write heads, with an average latency around 2.0 ms and typical seek times of about 3.4 ms (read) and 3.9 ms (write). Dimensions are 101.6 mm wide, 146.52 mm deep, and 25.4 mm high (approximately 4.0" W x 5.76" D x 1.0" H), and it weighs about 1.51 lb (0.686 kg). Seagate backs this enterprise model with a five-year limited warranty.