– 8TB per drive1 for 25% more petabytes per rack
– Industry’s lowest power and weight for optimum data center TCO
– Forged, wrought-aluminum base and a helium sealed-drive design with uniform density and no porosity
– Superior material and weld-width design for a more robust, hermetically sealed-drive enclosure that protects from helium leaks
– Digital environmental sensors for measuring internal humidity, pressure and temperature, helping to ensure high reliability, performance and quality
– Latest hermetic interconnect technology supporting higher data rate heads and higher pin counts for extreme thermal conditions
– Proven enterprise-class reliability backed by 2.5M-hr MTBF

Best-Fit Applications

– Hyperscale applications/cloud data centers
– Massive scale-out data centers
– High-capacity density RAID storage
– Mainstream enterprise external storage arrays
– Distributed file systems, including Hadoop and Ceph
– Enterprise backup and restore – D2D, virtual tape
– Centralized surveillance