Ultrastar DC HC500 series

High storage capacity for large data sets and low total cost of ownership

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

Key Features

• Storage Capacity: Up to 14TB
• Form Factor: 3.5″
• Interface: SATA III (6 Gb/s)
• Cache: Not specified
• Speed: 7200 RPM
• Sector Size: 512e
• Recording Process: CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording)
• MTBF: 2.5 Million Hours
• HelioSeal Technology: Fifth-generation helium-filled design for high power efficiency and reliability
• Applications: Cloud and hyperscale storage, distributed file systems, big data analytics, and monitoring

Performance & Reliability

• Annualized Failure Rate (AFR): Not specified
• Encryption: Not specified
• Reliable fifth-generation construction
• HelioSeal technology ensures lower power consumption per TB

Physical & Environmental Specifications

• Package Weight: 0.707 kg
• RoHS Compliant: Yes
• EAN / GTIN: 0829686005204

Use Case & Applications

• Cloud & hyperscale storage
• Massive scale-out (MSO) in high-density data centers
• Object storage solutions (Ceph, OpenStack Swift)
• Primary & secondary storage for Apache Hadoop big data analytics
• Monitoring data analysis