Overview
Internal hard drives with higher capacities and lower TCO. Data center decisions are driven by TCO. The Ultrastar DC HC550, with 14TB, play a leading role in reducing TCO.
  • CMR technology works with all capacity enterprise applications and environments
  • HDD with Energy Assisted-Magnetic Recording technology
  • Triple stage actuator
  • HelioSeal design delivers outstanding power efficiency (Watts/TB)
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) drives the data center architecture Data center decisions are driven by TCO. Higher capacity hard drives play a leading role in reducing TCO. Higher capacity HDDs enable data centers to lower CapEx by reducing supporting hardware and system level costs when compared to lower capacity drives. Helium-sealed, low power, high reliability drives reduce energy and maintenance costs, contributing to OpEx savings. For example, a data center using 18TB HDDs vs. 14TB HDDs can require 22% fewer racks while consuming 21% less power per TB at idle, resulting in significant overall TCO reduction for data center environments. Raising the capacity bar Ultrastar DC HC550 integrates a suite of technologies on a 9-disk platform to create a high class of HDDs. 14TB capacity is achieved by combining technologies that improve areal density working together with technologies that improve performance and reduce power consumption.