HGST / SuperMicro Ultrastar 7K6000 is the world's first 6TB 7200 RPM hard drive with a 2.0 million hours MTBF specification originally offered with SATA 6Gb/s. Ultrastar 7K6000 represents the 9th-generation HGST 5-platter design, which has been field proven by top server and storage OEMs and Internet giants. Engineered for the highest quality, the Ultrastar 7K6000 is put through grueling design tests during development and must pass stringent ongoing reliability testing during manufacturing. Ultrastar 7K6000 delivers by reducing downtime, eliminating service calls and minimizing TCO.

When you are looking for economical, high-capacity enterprise-class storage, look to the Ultrastar 7K6000. Designed to handle workloads up to 550TB per year, it delivers the value and performance you need for data center storage. With outstanding random write and sequential performance, the Ultrastar 7K6000 delivers 6TB of capacity in a 3.5-inch form factor. Innovations like patented Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) sensor technology optimize drive reliability in multi-drive RAID arrays and rack-mounted systems. Engineered for the highest quality, the Ultrastar 7K6000 passes stringent reliability testing. The ultra-reliable Ultrastar 7K6000 reduces downtime, eliminates service calls and minimizes TCO. Rely on the Ultrastar 7K6000 to deliver value and performance to the cost-sensitive data center.

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)