DATA SHEET
3.5-INCH HELIUM PLATFORM ENTERPRISE HARD DISK DRIVES
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Ultrastar He
Innovation ꢀor Next-generation,
Technology Innovations Make it
Happen
Key Advantages/Highlights
High-density Data Centers
• World’s first helium-filled hard drive
HGST delivers the world’s first hermetically sealed, helium
Through HGST’s innovative and patented HelioSeal process,
• Industry-first 6TB capacity1 in a standard
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hard drive, the Ultrastar® He ꢀor massive scale-out envi-
the Ultrastar He drive is the industry’s first hermetically
3.5-inch ꢀorm ꢀactor
• HelioSeal® process and 7Stac™ design are keys to
hermetically sealed drive with higher capacity
• TCOptimized™ design delivers on key elements oꢀ data
center TCO: capacity, power, cooling and storage density
• SAS & SATA 6Gb/s models ꢀor configuration flexibility
• Selꢀ-Encrypting Drive (SED) options ꢀor
HDD-level data security
ronments. Why does helium make a difference? Helium has
only one-seventh the density oꢀ air. Replacing air with helium ꢀactured in high volume. This unique sealed-drive platꢀorm
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.
sealed helium-filled HDD that can be cost-effectively manu-
provides a path ꢀor higher capacity storage ꢀor decades to
come while significantly lowering customer total cost oꢀ
ownership (TCO). The inherent benefits oꢀ helium enable
HGST’s new 7Stac disk design with 6TB, making it the world’s
highest capacity HDD with the best TCO ꢀor cloud storage,
massive scale-out environments, disk-to-disk backup, and
replicated or RAID environments.
The reduction in turbulence ꢀor the spinning disk allows HGST
to deliver a seven-disk design in a traditional 3.5-inch ꢀorm
ꢀactor. In addition to being the world’s first helium-filled hard
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drive, HGST Ultrastar He is also the first hard drive in the
industry to offer a 6-terabyte capacity. This design provides a
50% capacity gain and still reduces the energy needed to run
the drive by up to 23%.
HGST Quality and Service
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HGST’s Ultrastar He extends the company’s long-standing
Applications/Environments
TCOptimized™ – Driving Down
Data Center TCO with Helium
tradition oꢀ perꢀormance and capacity leadership. The
proven drive design enables high reliability and availability
to customer data. Ultrastar quality, perꢀormance and world
class technical support and service provides customers with
a lower total cost oꢀ ownership over previous generations.
• High-density data centers
• Massive scale-out data centers
• Containerized data centers
• Nearline storage applications
• Bulk storage
The amount oꢀ data that companies need to store is growing
exponentially, but IT budgets remain flat. With 6TB, a low 5.3
idle watts, a reduced weight oꢀ 640g, and running at 4ꢁ5°C
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HGST drives are backed by an array oꢀ technical support and
services, which may include customer and integration assistance.
HGST is dedicated to providing a complete portꢀolio oꢀ HDD/
SSD solutions to satisꢀy today’s monumental computing needs.
cooler, the new Ultrastar He lowers data center total cost oꢀ
ownership (TCO) on virtually every level. Key TCO benefits
when compared to a typical 3.5-inch, five-platter, air-filled
4TB drive* include:
• Enterprise and data center applications
where density and capacity are paramount
50% 23% 49% 30%
Features & Benefits
MORE CAPACITY*
LOWER IDLE POWER*
BETTER WATTSꢁTB*
QUIETER OPERATION*
Feature / Function
Benefits
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Capacity
TCO
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6TB
Highest enterprise capacity hard drive available in an industry-standard 3.5-inch ꢀorm ꢀactor
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HelioSeal Platꢀorm
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Delivers 50% higher capacity with 23% lower power, 30% quieter, 4ºC cooler and 50g
lighter weight
4oC 50g
Perꢀormance
Reliability
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7200 RPM
Rotational Vibration Saꢀeguard (RVS)
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High perꢀormance ꢀor business critical applications
Maintains drive perꢀormance in high rotational vibration environments and multi-drive systems
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2.5M hours MTBF2 and 0.35% AFR2
Thermal Fly-height Control (TFC) with internal thermal sensor
Head load/unload
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Industry’s highest reliability rating ꢀor Capacity Enterprise hard drives
Better soꢀt error rate ꢀor improved reliability and perꢀormance
Protects disk during non-operation
COOLER OPERATION*
LIGHTER WEIGHT*
SMART command transport
Adaptive error correction
Power
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Improved Watts per gigabyte (W/GB)
2.0 Bels (Idle)
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49% lower W/GB than 4TB air-filled drives
*MEASUREMENTS SHOWN REFLECT IMPROVEMENTS
WHEN COMPARING SATA MODELS OF A 4TB
ULTRASTAR 7K4000 AND 6TB ULTRASTAR HE6
Acoustics
Security
30% quieter operation than 5-platter, 4TB 3.5-inch air-filled drives
Encrypt private data, providing security and easy redeployment
Optional Bulk Data Encryption (SATA) and TCG Enterprise_A (SAS)