WD/HGST Ultrastar DC HC520 (He12) 12TB 256MB SATA 512e HUH721212ALE600

Overview

Laying the foundation for a worry-free data center, Western Digital delivers capacity to conquer the data explosion – Ultrastar® DC HC520. Designed to handle workloads up to 550TB per year, the Ultrastar DC HC520 HDD is the industry’s first 12TB drive and uses PMR technology to make it drop-in ready for any enterprise-capacity application or environment. The stable internal environment created by fourth-generation HelioSeal® technology enables a new 8-disk design, increasing the capacity by 20% when compared to the 7-disk design of the prior generation. This highest capacity helium drive offers one of the lowest power profiles in the industry to help data center architects meet eco-environmental goals and requirements. Targeted at 2.5M hours MTBF, the Ultrastar DC HC520 HDD provides the highest reliability rating available of all HDDs on the market today by building on the successful design of its 10TB, 8TB and 6TB predecessors. Trust Western Digital and the Ultrastar DC HC520 HDD to deliver more capacity, more efficiency, more reliability and more value to your data center.

Highlights

• 12TB capacity in a standard 3.5-inch form factor
• PMR technology works with all capacity enterprise applications & environments
• Reliable, field-proven, 4th generation design
• Outstanding power efficiency (Watts/TB)
• Compared to 8TB Ultrastar air-filled drives:
  • - 50% more capacity
  • - 52% more power efficient (Watts/TB)
  • - 25% more reliable (MTBF)
• SATA 6Gb/s and SAS 12Gb/s:
  • - 12Gb/s SAS compatible with next gen data centers; backwards compatible with 6Gb/s SAS
• 2.5M hours MTBF rating & 5-year limited warranty
• Instant Secure Erase (ISE) & Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) options
• Advanced Format 4Kn and 512e models

Applications/Environments

• Enterprise and data center applications where capacity density, power efficiency and reliability are paramount
• Cloud & Hyperscale storage
• Massive scale-out (MSO), high-density data centers
• Distributed File Systems
• Bulk storage using object storage solutions like CEPH™ and OpenStack Swift
• Primary and secondary storage for Hadoop® to support Big Data Analytics
• Centralized video surveillance
• Ideal for all mainstream enterprise capacity applications