High storage capacity for large data stocks and low overall costs

Excellent price/capacity ratio for cloud and hyperscale data centers The advent of Big Data has resulted in the need for more memory across the entire application and workload spectrum. With the Ultrastar DC HC500 Series, Western Digital offers reliable, high-capacity hard drives that can handle the rapid growth of data in the data center. With HelioSeal technology, the industry’s only fifth generation helium platform, the DC HC500 Series hard drives are designed for public and private clouds where storage density, watts/TB and €/TB are critical factors for the most economical infrastructure. The HelioSeal technology is the basis for high storage capacity, outstanding reliability and highest power efficiency. Our cloud and enterprise customers benefit from lower overall costs.

Highlights

• up to 18 TB storage capacity in 3.5-inch format
• Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) technology for reliable data storage in enterprise environments
• reliable construction, proven in the fifth generation
• HelioSeal ensures high power efficiency (Watt/TB)
• MTBF of 2.5 million hours
• Applications and Workloads
  • cloud and hyperscale storage
  • massive scale-out (MSO) in high-density data centers
  • distributed file systems
  • Mass storage with object storage solutions like Ceph™ and OpenStack Swift
  • Primary and secondary storage when using Apache Hadoop® for big data analysis
  • Analysis of monitoring data