Western Digital WUS721010ALE6L4 Hard Drive 10TB SATA 6Gb/s 7200RPM 3.5in, 512e/4Kn - Ultrastar DC HC300 Series

Expanding our Ultrastar HC300 Family to 10TB 

The Ultrastar DC HC330 is based on a proven and cost-efficient air-based HDD platform design utilizing six disks and conventional magnetic recording (CMR) technology in a 3.5-inch large form factor. Compared to our prior 10TB product, the DC HC330 delivers the same capacity while using fewer disks. It leverages common hardware and firmware from the existing DC HC300 family of 4TB, 6TB, and 8TB capacities and features a second-generation, dual-stage microactuator to enhance head positioning accuracy for better drive performance. Write performance gains over the prior 10TB are enabled by an improved media cache architecture, that incorporates a flash-backed DRAM cache in addition to the existing disk-based caching technology that provides a large cache area on the disk media.

Data Security with Trusted Quality, Reliability

New government regulations on data privacy and security requirements drive the need for increased security features on storage devices. The Ultrastar DC HC330 helps protect data from unauthorized use by offering security and encryption options. SATA models offer hardware-based encryption options, which include both Sanitize Crypto Scramble / Erase functionality and TCG encryption (Trusted Computing Group, Enterprise SSC). The Ultrastar DC HC330 extends Western Digital’s long-standing tradition of reliability leadership with a 2M-hour MTBF rating, workloads up to 550TB per year.

Highlights

• 10TB capacity point supports both OEM and cloud deployments

• Advanced Format models

• Self-Encrypting Drive options

Applications and Workloads

• Distributed file systems, like Apache Hadoop, to support Big Data analytics

• Rack-mounted storage enclosures

• Server based distributed storage systems

• Direct and Network Attached Storage

• (DAS and NAS)

• RAID arrays