Product Description
HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) is a new type of storage company designed for a new world in which ever-increasing amounts of content are being generated from cloud services, Internet content providers, social networks and mobile devices. HGST has an unmatched reputation for reliability and offers a broad portfolio of innovative, high quality hard disk and solid state drives that store, manage and protect the world’s data. Our drives are relied on by enterprises, Internet companies, consumers and creative professionals to store and manage their data efficiently and securely.
Brand Name: HGST
Buffer: 128 MB
Drive Interface Standard: SATA/600
Drive Interface: SATA
Drive Type: Internal
Drive Width: 3.5
Product Family: Ultrastar 7K6000
Product Type: Hard Drive
Rotational Speed: 7200 rpm
Storage Capacity: 6 TB
Wireless LAN: No
Drive Performance
Buffer: 128 MB
Rotational Speed: 7200 rpm
Features
Best-in-class random & sequential performance
Reliable, field-proven, 7th generation 5-disk design
Compared to prior generation 7K4000
– 50% more capacity (6TB vs. 4TB)
– 30% better power efficiency (Watts/TB)
– Up to 3X faster random write performance using media cache technology
– 25% faster sequential read/write performance
12Gb/s SAS and 6Gb/s SATA for compatibility with high performance data centers
128MB cache buffer improves response time and data management
Secure erase & Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) options
Advanced format 4Kn and 512e models
2M hours MTBF rating
Applications/Environments
– Cloud & Hyperscale storage
– Distributed Files Systems like Ceph and Hadoop to support Big Data Analytics
– Video surveillance & content distribution
– Direct & Network Attached Storage (DAS & NAS)
– RAID arrays
– Massive scale-out data centers (MSO)