DATA SHEET
3.5-INCH ACTIVE ARCHIVE ENTERPRISE HARD DISK DRIVES
Ultrastar® Archive Ha10
Beyond Create and Modiꢀy:
Designed with the Customer
in Mind
Highlights
Purpose-built ꢀor Active Archive
• Industry’s first enterprise-grade 10TB1 capacity hard drive
As the world’s ꢀirst enterprise-class 10TB HDD, HGST
At the core of its design, the Ha10 leverages the proven
and mature HelioSeal platform to deliver an unmatched
launches Ultrastar Archive Ha10 to address the emerging
• Combines HelioSeal and host-managed SMR to deliver
25% capacity improvement
• Purpose-built ꢀor new market category oꢀ Active
Archive applications
• Consistent, predictable perꢀormance ꢀor true enterprise
Active Archive segment in the capacity enterprise space. Watt/TB power footprint, ideal for ultra-dense scale-
Optimized for highest capacity at the lowest TCO, the
Ha10 provides unprecedented capacity leadership by
harnessing two core complementary technologies—
HelioSeal® and host-managed shingled magnetic
recording (SMR)—to deliver uncompromising quality and
reliable performance.
out storage systems, with uncompromising product
reliability, necessary for private and public cloud
enterprise applications.
By combining host-managed SMR with HelioSeal,
Ha10 offers a 25% increase in capacity compared to
drives using perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR)
technology, while delivering a highly predictable,
highly reliable performance unseen in any other SMR
implementation. Because host-managed SMR enforces
the sequentiality of all incoming data and also provides
control at the host level, customers can now intelligently
tier their storage from hot-to-cold while maintaining a
consistent performance proꢀile regardless of packet size,
number of data streams, or workload.
experience
• Uncompromising enterprise-class reliability and quality
• 2M hour MTBF2 rating and 5-year warranty
Preparing to use Host-Managed
SMR
Ultrastar Archive drives are designed speciꢀically for
Active Archive environments and will not work as drop-in
replacements for traditional capacity enterprise drives.
To take advantage of the capacity and predictable
performance of host-managed SMR beneꢀits, customers
will need to modify their end application or kernel space
to interface with new command sets, and data streams
must be sequentialized for writing to the drive. The
investments made in software changes will also help
enable future host-based SMR solutions, and provide a
path to future recording technologies.
Applications/Environments
• Active Archive
• Big Data or Bulk Storage
• Cloud Storage
• Social Media
• Content Libraries, Streaming Media and Digital Media
Assets
Active archive applications need maximum capacity,
low $/TB, and high data quality with consistent,
reliable performance as a secondary requirement. Ha10
meets all these needs and also delivers enterprise-
class characteristics for bit error rate, drive speed and
rotational vibration speciꢀications.
• Online Back-up, Replication
• Compliance, Audits, Regulatory Records
Features & Beneꢀits
Feature / Function
Benefits
Technology
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HelioSeal® technology
Host-managed SMR
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25% boost in capacity, while delivering predictable, consistent perꢀormance ꢀor
enterprise applications.
Capacity
10TB
Highest enterprise-grade storage capacity ꢀor Active Archive applications
Power Efficiency
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Unprecedented Watts/TB
Advanced Power Management technology
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20% improvement in Watts/TB over Ultrastar He8
Additional power savings with instant-on capability
10TB host-managed SMR
ꢀor Active Archive workload
Reliability
(Enterprise Grade)
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2M hour MTBF
5-year warranty
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Lower AFR over product liꢀe provides ꢀor appreciable TCO savings
Best-in-class warranty to match enterprise-grade quality
SMR with no compromise to data quality and bit integrity
Ideal ꢀor multi-drive, ultra-dense systems. Works in existing chassis designs.
Ideal ꢀor true Active Archive applications
1 in 1015 unrecoverable bit error rate
Rotational Vibration Saꢀeguard (12.5 rad/s2 specification)
600,000 Load/Unload Cycle
Ready ꢀor Ultrastar Archive?
To learn more about what’s required to get the capacity,
predictable performance, and total-cost-of-ownership
(TCO) advantages of host-managed SMR drives in your
data center, contact your HGST sales representative or
visit hgst.com/10TBnow.
Perꢀormance
Security
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7200 RPM
157MB/s sustained read transꢀer rate
Conventional zones
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Enterprise-grade perꢀormance ꢀor enterprise applications
Consistent, predictable Active Archive workload perꢀormance
Dedicated zones ꢀor meta data management
Selꢀ-encrypting Drive (SED) options
Encrypts and saꢀeguards data, providing security and ease oꢀ redeployment