Ultrastar DC HC300 Series
Solves Access Density Challenges

Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC300 Series

Delivering Economics and Access Speed to Data Center Applications and Workloads

As the industry evolves to develop purpose-built solutions for growing data storage requirements, IT managers continue to rely on mid-range capacity drives that are economical to acquire, yet deliver quick and reliable data access for traditional data center applications. Designed to handle workloads up to 550TB per year, the Ultrastar DC HC300 series is a proven air-platform design that delivers up to the industry leading 10TB of capacity to help address the economic and access-density requirements of many data center workloads. Ideal for storage and server applications, as well as distributed and scalable computing (including block and file storage architectures), the Ultrastar DC HC300 series provides fast 7,200 RPM spindle speeds and is offered in either 6Gb/s SATA or 12Gb/s SAS interface with advanced format 512e2 sector size.

Highlights

    • 10TB capacity point supports both OEM & cloud deployments
    • Advanced Format 512e models
    • Self-Encrypting Drive options
    • 5-year limited warranty

Applications and Workload

    • Distributed file systems, like Apache Hadoop®, to support
      Big Data analytics
    • Rack-mounted storage enclosures
    • Server based distributed storage systems.
    • Direct & Network Attached Storage (DAS & NAS)
    • RAID arrays
Ultrastar DC HC330
Ultrastar DC HC330

Ultrastar DC HC330

Interface

Capacity

Form Factor

Format: Sector size (bytes)
4Kn:
512e:

Max areal density (Gbits/sq. in., max)

Performance

Data buffer (MB)

Rotational speed (RPM)

Latency average (ms)

Interface transfer rate (MB/s, max)

Sustained transfer rate
(MiB/s, typical)
(MB/s, typical)

Seek time (read/write, ms, typ)

Reliability

Error rate (non-recoverable bits read)

Load/Unload cycles (at 40°C)

MTBF (M hours)

Annualized Failure Rate (AFR)

Availability (hrs/day x days/wk)

Limited Warranty (yrs)

Power

Requirement

Operating (W, typical)

Idle (W)

Physical

z-height (mm, max)

Dimensions (width x depth, mm)

Weight (g, max)

SATA 6Gb/s

10TB

3.5-inch


512e: 512
4Kn: 4096

869

 

256

7200

4.16

600


Up to 250
Up to 262

8.0 / 8.6

 

1 in 1015

600,000

2M hours

0.44%

24x7

5

 

+5V, +12V

9.2

8.0

 

26.1

101.6 (+/-0.25) x 147

750

SAS 12Gb/s

10TB

3.5-inch


512e: 512, 520, 528
4Kn: 4096, 4104,4160, 4224

869

 

256

7200

4.16

1200


Up to 250
Up to 262

8.0 / 8.6

 

1 in 1015

600,000

2M hours

0.44%

24x7

5

 

+5V, +12V

12.4

9.0

 

26.1

101.6 (+/-0.25) x 147

750