Increasing Capacity Density by 50%
As petabyte (PB) growth continues to increase at a rapid pace, corporate and cloud data centers are under extreme pressure to improve the efficiency of storage. To address this data center challenge, HGST introduces Ultrastar?? 7K6000, delivering up to 6TB of capacity in an industrystandard, 3.5-inch hard drive, for capacity-optimized enterprise applications. Ultrastar 7K6000 provides 50% more capacity and 30% better power efficiency in terms of Watts per terabyte (W/TB) than its predecessor, Ultrastar 7K4000. The 7K6000 is designed for all traditional and rapidly growing scale-out storage applications, including object, block and file storage architectures, providing huge capacity, the fastest 7,200 RPM performance and the best $/TB acquisition cost.


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)


Highlights
??? Best-in-class random & sequential performance

??? Reliable, field-proven, 7th generation 5-disk design

??? Compared to prior generation 7K4000

- 50% more capacity1 (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 & 6Gb/s SATA

- 12Gb/s SAS compatible with next gen data centers; backwards compatible with 6Gb/s SAS

??? 128MB cache buffer improves response time and data management

??? Instant Secure Erase (ISE) & Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) options

??? Advanced format 4Kn and 512e models up to 6TB; 512n format available in 4TB and 2TB capacities