Ultrastar C15K600
2.5-Inch SFF
Enterprise 15K RPM Hard Disk Drives
Big Performance and
Capacity in a Small Package
HGST delivers
the worlds fastest hard disk drive in the Ultrastar® C15K600, a 15K
RPM, 2.5-inch small form factor hard drive ideally suited for
mission-critical data center and high performance computing
environments. At 600GB, Ultrastar C15K600 provides double the capacity
of current generation 2.5-inch 15K drives, and matches the highest
capacity point of 3.5-inch 15K drives. This latest addition to the
Ultrastar small form factor (SFF) family outperforms not only the
competition but also legacy 3.5-inch 15K drives from HGST, achieving 38%
faster sequential and 2.5X faster random write performance for faster
data processing, while consuming half as much active and idle power
Best-in-class performance
is achieved through several innovations, including media caching
technology that provides a large caching mechanism for incoming data
resulting in significantly enhanced write performance over solutions
with limited NAND or flash-based non-volatile cache (NVC). The C15K600
is HGSTs first hard drive to leverage an industry-leading 12Gb/s
Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) interface enabling very high transfer rates
between host and drive, supporting the performance and reliability
required in the most demanding enterprise computing environments like
online transaction processing (OLTP), big data analytics, multi-user
applications and data warehousing.
Power and Density
Efficiency
The compact
size and power management innovations designed into the Ultrastar
C15K600 enable high levels of power efficiency and translate into
reduced power requirements and lower cooling costs, an ideal choice for
enterprise data centers faced with space and power limitations. Compared
to legacy 3.5-inch 15K drives, Ultrastar C15K600 consumes 70% less space
yet provides up to 55% lower active power and 54% lower idle power
requirements. HGST Advanced Power Management technology, with
multi-state idle modes, uses industryrecognized standards for power
optimization and can be pre-programmed or manually initiated in the
system.
Enterprise Reliability
and Data Security
The Ultrastar
C15K600 offers the broadest range of security options and encryption
options available from HGST, including Instant Secure Erase (ISE),
Trusted Computing Group (TCG) enterprise SSC-compliant Self-Encrypting
Drives (SED), and TCG enterprise SED with FIPS (Federal Information
Processing Standard) 140-2 certification, Level 2, which provides
data-at-rest and tamper evidence protection for the most stringent
regulatory data security compliance requirements. Ultrastar C15K600
extends the companys longstanding tradition of reliability leadership
with a 2M hour MTBF rating, an annualized failure rate (AFR) of 0.44%.
Highlights
· 15,000 RPM
performance for Tier 0/1 applications
· Capacities up to
600GB
· Industry-leading
12Gb/s SAS moves more data quickly and reliably
· Compared to 15K
3.5-inch HDDs:
o 2.5X faster random
write performance
o 14% faster random
read performance
o 38% faster sequential
performance
o 54% lower active and
idle power
o 70% smaller footprint
· 2M hours MTBF2
rating
· 128MB cache
buffer manages data efficiency
· Security &
encryption models including ISE, TCG-SED & FIPS 140-2 certified TCG-SED
Applications /
Environments
· High Performance
Computing (HPC) & other highperformance, mission-critical applications
requiring 24x7 availability
· Tier 0/1
enterprise-class servers and networked storage arrays
· High reliability
blade, pedestal and rack-mounted servers
· Systems needing
the highest levels of data security to meet compliance-driven
requirements
· Databases and
intense Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
· Servers and
storage arrays (DAS, SAN and NAS)
Features and Benefits
Performance
· Feature/Function
o 15K RPM
o SAS 12Gb/s
o Media caching
technology
o Rotational Vibration
Safeguard (RVS)
o Workload detector
technology
· Benefits
o Highest speed
available for enterprise-class HDDs
o Industrys fastest
SAS interface for maximum throughput
o Significantly
enhanced over solutions with limited NAND or flash-based non-volatile
cache (NVC)
o Maintains optimum
performance in multi-drive systems
o Maximizes performance
in multi-drive systems
Capacity
· Feature/Function
o Up to 600GB
· Benefits
o Double current
2.5-inch 15K drives and matches 3.5-inch 15K drives
Power Efficiency
· Feature/Function
o 2.5-inch form factor
o Advanced Power
Management
· Benefits
o Consumes up to 55%
less power than 3.5-inch HGST drives
o Optimizes power
consumption to lower data center energy usage and cooling costs
Reliability
· Feature/Function
o IDRC technology
o RRO fields
o End-to-end data
protection (ANSI)
· Benefits
o Improves signal
processing for more robust data integrity
o Improves handling of
repeatable run out to lower risk of data squeeze and write inhibit rate
o Enhances error
detection for optimal data integrity
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