Data centers face growing pressures to manage costs. For affordable server boot drives, or applications that use smaller data sets, Western Digital offers the Ultrastar DC HA200 series, an entry-level, low capacity line of enterprise-class hard drives. Designed to handle workloads up to 550TB per year, the Ultrastar DC HA200 series delivers up to 2TB cost-effective storage capacity for data center environments. Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) technology utilizes sophisticated electronics to monitor the drive and correct both linear and rotational vibration disturbances in real time—especially helpful in multi-drive arrays and rack-mounted systems maintaining high read/write performance. Ultrastar DC HA200 series is offered with a SATA 6 Gb/s interface and native 512-byte (512n) sector size for compatibility with legacy data center applications.

Applications and Workload

• RAID Arrays
• Server Boot Drive
• Direct-Attached Storage (DAS)
• Network-Attached Storage (NAS)
• Legacy mainstream enterprise capacity applications that require 512n block size

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.

Applications and Workload

• Distributed file systems, like Apache Hadoop®, to support Big Data analytics
• Rack-mounted storage enclosures
• Server based distributed storage systems.
• Direct & Network Attached Storage (DAS & NAS)
• RAID arrays

Ultrastar DC HC330

10TB 3.5-inch Data Center Hard Drive

The breadth and depth of Big Data is driving the universal need for higher capacities across a broad spectrum of applications and workloads. Laying the foundation for a worry-free data center, Western Digital delivers the capacity to conquer the data explosion with the Ultrastar DC HC500 series of hard drives. Built using HelioSeal technology, the industry’s only fifth-generation helium platform, the DC HC500 series is

designed for public and private cloud environments, where storage density, Watts/TB and $/TB are critical for creating the most cost-efficient infrastructure. HelioSeal technology is key to achieving higher drive capacities, greater reliability ratings and extreme power efficiency. The result is a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for our cloud and enterprise customers.

Applications and Workloads

• 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 Apache Hadoop® for Big Data Analytics
• Surveillance Analytics

Ultrastar DC HC530
14TB 3.5-inch HelioSeal Platform Data Center Hard Drives