HGST has announced that their Ultrastar 7K6000 is now shipping, the company’s seventh, and last, generation air-based platform with high capacities in a standard 3.5-inch HDD design. The 6TB Ultrastar 7K6000 provides 1.2TB per disk in a five-disk solution targeting all traditional and rapidly growing scale out storage applications, including object, block and file storage architectures. The 7K6000 is designed to help data center customers capture the growth and long-term value of data by providing huge capacity, 7,200 RPM performance and the best $/GB acquisition cost available.
HGST has announced that their Ultrastar 7K6000 is now shipping, the company’s seventh, and last, generation air-based platform with high capacities in a standard 3.5-inch HDD design. The 6TB Ultrastar 7K6000 provides 1.2TB per disk in a five-disk solution targeting all traditional and rapidly growing scale out storage applications, including object, block and file storage architectures. The 7K6000 is designed to help data center customers capture the growth and long-term value of data by providing huge capacity, 7,200 RPM performance and the best $/GB acquisition cost available.
The Ultrastar 7K6000 offers 50% more capacity and 30% improved power efficiency (W/TB) than its predecessor, Ultrastar 7K4000. The Ultrastar 7K6000 also provides greater storage efficiency with its best-in-class performance, reaching up to 3X higher random write performance. This is due to HGST’s media cache architecture, which is a disk-based caching technology that provides a large non-volatile cache on the disk. Media cache also allows for improved reliability and data integrity during sudden power losses.
Other features include higher areal density for 25% faster sequential performance than the 7K4000, as well as a 128MB cache buffer. The 7K6000 also offers a 12Gb/s SAS (6Gb/s SATA) interface for easy integration into high performance data centers.
Features breakdown:
- Top Capacity: 6TB
- Power Efficiency: 30% lower Watts per terabyte (W/TB)
- Performance:
- Increased Areal Density (Gbits/sq. in)
- Media cache architecture
- Rebuild Assist mode (Reduces rebuild time for a failed drive and maintains system performance during rebuild in a RAID configuration)
- SAS 12Gb/s and SATA 6Gb/s (Provides compatibility and easy integration with high-performance data centers)
- Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS)
- Reliability:
- 2.0M hours MTBF
- 5-year limited warranty
- Data Security Instant Secure Erase (Enables swift and efficient drive redeployment and retirement)
- Optional Bulk Data Encryption (SATA) & TCG Enterprise_A (SAS)
Specifications (Model#: HUS7260xxALN61y, HUS7260xxALE61y)
- Interface: SAS 6Gb/s
- Capacity (TB): 6TB / 5TB / 4TB / 2TB
- Sector size (bytes)
- 4Kn: 4096,
- 512e: 512
- Max. areal density (Gbits/sq. in): 703 (6TB), 599 (<6TB)
- Data buffer (MB): 128
- Rotational speed (RPM): 7200
- Latency average, (ms): 4.16
- Interface transfer rate (MB/s, max): 600
- Sustained transfer rate
- (MiB/sec, typ.): 216 (6TB), 192 (<6TB)
- (MB/sec, typ.): 227 (6TB), 202 (<6TB)
- Seek time (read/write, ms, typical): 7.6 / 8.0
- Reliability
- Error rate (non-recoverable, bits read): 1 in 1015
- MTBF1 (M hours): 2.0
- Availability (hrs/day x days/wk): 24×7
- Acoustics
- Idle/Operating (Bels, typical): 2.9 / 3.6
- Power:
- Requirement: +5V, +12V
- Operating (W, typical): 9.1
- Idle (W): 7.1
- Power consumption efficiency at idle:
- (Watts/TB): 1.2 (6TB)
- (Watts/GB): 0.0012 (6TB)
- Physical size:
- z-height (mm, max): 26.1
- Dimensions (width x depth, mm): 101.6 (+/-0.25) x 147
- Weight (g, max): 715
Specifications (HUS7260xxAL421y, HUS7260xxAL521y)
- Interface: SAS 12Gb/s
- Capacity (TB): 6TB / 5TB / 4TB / 2TB
- Sector size (bytes)
- 4Kn: 4096, 4112, 4160, 4224
- 512e: 512, 520, 528
- Max. areal density (Gbits/sq. in): 703 (6TB), 599 (<6TB)
- Data buffer (MB): 128
- Rotational speed (RPM): 7200
- Latency average, (ms): 4.16
- Interface transfer rate (MB/s, max): 1200
- Sustained transfer rate
- (MiB/sec, typ.): 216 (6TB), 192 (<6TB)
- (MB/sec, typ.): 227 (6TB), 202 (<6TB)
- Sustained transfer rate
- Seek time (read/write, ms, typical): 7.6 / 8.0
- Reliability
- Error rate (non-recoverable, bits read): 1 in 1015
- MTBF1 (M hours): 2.0
- Availability (hrs/day x days/wk): 24×7
- Acoustics
- Idle/Operating (Bels, typical): 2.9 / 3.6
- Power:
- Requirement: +5V, +12V
- Operating (W, typical): 11
- Idle (W): 7.7
- Power consumption efficiency at idle:
- (Watts/TB): 1.3 (6TB)
- (Watts/GB): 0.0013 (6TB)
- Physical size:
- z-height (mm, max): 26.1
- Dimensions (width x depth, mm): 101.6 (+/-0.25) x 147
- Weight (g, max): 715
Availability
The drive is currently being qualified by industry-leading cloud and OEM customers worldwide.
