HGST Ultrastar He12 HUH721212ALE601 12TB 7.2K RPM 256MB SATA-6Gb/s 3.5" Internal Enterprise Hard drive

HC520 12TB HARD DRIVE delivers the worlds first hermetically sealed, helium hard drive, the He10 for massive scale-out environments. Why does helium make a difference? Helium has only one-seventh the density of air. Replacing air with helium inside a hard drive dramatically reduces the turbulence caused by the spinning disks, cuts power consumption and results in a lower temperature within the disk drive. The reduction in turbulence for the spinning disk allows HDD to deliver a seven-disk design in a traditional 3.5 -inch form factor. In addition to being the worlds first helium-filled hard drive, HC520 is also the first hard drive in the industry 12-terabyte capacity.

This design provides a 50% capacity gain and still reduces the energy needed to run the drive by up to 23%.

Key Advantages/Highlights

Worlds first helium-filled hard drive
Industry-first 10TB capacity in a standard
3.5 -inch form factor
seal process and 7StacTM design are keys to hermetically sealed drive with higher capacity
TCOptimized design delivers on key elements of data center
TCO: capacity, power, cooling and storage density
SATA 6Gb/s models for configuration flexibility
Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) options for HDD-level data security

Applications/Environments

High-density data centers
Massive scale-out data centers
Containerized data centers
Nearline storage applications
Bulkstorage
Enterprise and data center applications where density and capacity are paramount
Backup system
Desktop PC