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Ultrastar DC HC300 Series

Medium Capacity for High

Access-Density Requirements

Delivering Economics and Access Speed to Data Center Applications and Workloads

As the industry evolves to develop purpose-built solutions for growing data storage requirements, IT managers continue to rely on mid-range capacity drives that are economical to acquire, yet deliver quick and reliable data access for traditional data center applications. Designed to handle workloads up to 550TB per year, the Ultrastar DC HC300 series is a proven air-platform design that delivers up to the industry leading 10TB of capacity to help address the economic and access-density requirements of many data center workloads. Ideal for storage and server applications, as well as distributed and scalable computing (including block and file storage architectures), the Ultrastar DC HC300 series provides fast 7,200 RPM spindle speeds and is offered in either 6Gb/s SATA or 12Gb/s SAS interface with advanced format 512e3 sector size.

Solves Access Density Challenges

Economical Capacity

4TB, 6TB, 8TB, and 10TB models for lower acquisition cost

High Performance

Fast data access with 7200 RPM speed, transferring up to 255 MB/s

Drop-In Ready

SAS and SATA options support traditional servers and storage

HGST Ultrastar™ 7K4000 is the world's first 4TB 7200 RPM hard drive with a 2.0 million hours MTBF specification and backed by a full 5-year warranty, originally offered with SATA 6Gb/s and now also available with a SAS interface. Ultrastar 7K4000 represents the sixth-generation HGST 5-platter design, which has been field proven by top server and storage OEMs and Internet giants. Engineered for the highest quality, the Ultrastar 7K4000 is put through grueling design tests during development and must pass stringent ongoing reliability testing during manufacturing. Ultrastar 7K4000 delivers by reducing downtime, eliminating service calls and minimizing TCO.

HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) is a new type of storage company designed for a new world in which ever-increasing amounts of content are being generated from cloud services, Internet content providers, social networks and mobile devices. HGST has an unmatched reputation for reliability and offers a broad portfolio of innovative, high quality hard disk and solid state drives that store, manage and protect the world's data. Our drives are relied on by enterprises, Internet companies, consumers and creative professionals to store and manage their data efficiently and securely.

The MegaScale DC 4000.B is designed to meet the needs of the scale-out data center where low-power, high-capacity, cost-effective storage is essential. MegaScale DC addresses low application workloads that operate within 180TB per year. Typical low-workload applications include multi-drive replicated environments, disk-to-disk backup and restore snapshots, online archives, big data stores and long-term data retention that benefit from low cost or energy usage.