WD Ultrastar 3.5″ Data Center 12TB

WD Ultrastar 3.5″ Data Center 12TB

WD Ultrastar 3.5″ Data Center 12TB Features:

• 12TB capacity in a standard 3.5-inch form factor
• PMR technology works with all capacity enterprise applications & environments
• Reliable, field-proven, 4th generation design
• Industry’s best power efficiency (Watts/TB)
• Compared to 8TB air drives
• 50% more capacity
• 54% more power efficient (Watts/TB)
• 25% more reliable
• SATA 6Gb/s and SAS 12Gb/s
• 12Gb/s SAS compatible with next gen data centers; backwards compatible with 6Gb/s SAS
• 2.5M hours MTBF rating
• Instant Secure Erase (ISE) & Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) options
• Advanced Format 4Kn and 512e models

Applications/Environments:

• Enterprise and data center applications where capacity density, power efficiency and reliability are paramount
• Cloud & Hyperscale storage
• Massive scale-out (MSO), high-density data centers
• Distributed File Systems
• Bulk storage using object storage solutions like CEPH™ and OpenStack Swift
• Primary and secondary storage for Hadoop® to support Big Data Analytics
• Centralized video surveillance
• Ideal for all mainstream enterprise capacity applications