HGST HUS726020ALA610 User Manual

DATA SHEET

Ultrastar® 7K6000

3.5- INCH E NTERPR ISE 720 0 RPM HAR D DISK D RIVES

Highlights

• Excellent random & sequential
performance

• Reliable, ield-proven, 7th generation
5-disk design

• Compared to prior generation 7K4000

—50% more capacity1 (6TB vs. 4TB)

—30% better power eiciency

(Watts/TB)

—Up to 3X faster random write

performance using media cache
technology

—25% faster sequential read/write
performance

• 12Gb/s SAS & 6Gb/s SATA

—12Gb/s SAS compatible with next

gen data centers; backwards
compatible with 6Gb/s SAS

• 128MB cache buer improves
response time and data management

• Instant Secure Erase (ISE) & Self-Encrypting
Drive (SED) options

• Advanced format 4Kn and 512e
models up to 6TB; 512n format
available in 4TB and 2TB capacities

• 2M hours MTBF2 rating & 5-year limited
warranty

Applications/

Increasing Capacity Density by 50%

As petabyte (PB) growth continues to increase at a rapid pace, corporate and cloud data centers
are under extreme pressure to improve the eiciency of storage. To address this data center
challenge, HGST introduces Ultrastar® 7K6000, delivering up to 6TB of capacity in an industry­standard, 3.5-inch hard drive, for capacity-optimized enterprise applications. Ultrastar 7K6000
provides 50% more capacity and 30% better power eiciency in terms of Watts per terabyte
(W/TB) than its predecessor, Ultrastar 7K4000. The 7K6000 is designed for all traditional
and rapidly growing scale-out storage applications, including object, block and ile storage
architectures, providing huge capacity, fast 7,200 RPM performance and economical $/TB
acquisition cost.

Technology Innovation Improves Storage Eiciency

Ultrastar 7K6000 also delivers greater storage eiciency through high performance, achieving
up to 3X higher random write performance, thanks to HGST media cache architecture, a disk­based caching technology, which provides a large non-volatile cache on the disk. Media
cache also allows for improved reliability and data integrity during unexpected power loss.
Other performance-enhancing features include higher areal density for 25% faster sequential
performance vs. 7K4000, and a 128MB cache buer. Designed to handle workloads up to 550TB
per year, Ultrastar 7K6000 oers a 12Gb/s SAS (6Gb/s SATA) interface for easy integration into high
performance data centers. As drive capacities increase, so does the time required to recover a
failed drive in a RAID coniguration. Dramatically reduce RAID rebuild times and maintain system
performance during the rebuild process with the new Rebuild Assist. Learn more in our Rebuild
Assist technical brief. For legacy systems that require native 512 formatting, models are available at
4TB and 2TB capacity points.

Data Security with Trusted Quality, Reliability

Compliance and privacy requirements drive the need for increased data security. Ultrastar
7K6000 helps protect data from unauthorized use by oering security and encryption options.
Instant Secure Erase (ISE) models expedite drive redeployment and retirement. Encryption
models protect data with hardware-based encryption, including a Trusted Computing Group
(TCG) Enterprise_ A, TCG with FIPS 1402 certiication, Level 2. The Ultrastar 7K6000 is a seventh
generation, 5-platter design, ield proven by top server and storage OEMs, and Internet giants, and
extends HGST’s long-standing tradition of reliability leadership with a 2M-hour MTBF rating and a
5-year limited warranty.

Environments

• Cloud & Hyperscale storage

• Distributed Files Systems like Ceph™
and Hadoop® to support Big Data
Analytics

• Video surveillance & content
distribution

• Direct & Network Attached Storage
(DAS & NAS)

• RAID arrays

• Massive scale-out data centers (MSO)

6TB, 5TB, 4TB and 2TB | 7200 R PM

SATA 6Gb/s and SAS 12Gb/s

Features & Beneits

Feature / Function Beneits

Capacity • 6TB, 5 TB, 4TB, and 2TB

Power
Eiciency

Performance • Incre ased Areal Density (Gbits/sq. i n)

Reliability • 2M ho urs MTB F and 0.4 4% AFR

Data Security • Ins tant Secure Eras e

• Advanced Form at up to 6TB

• 512n Form at availab le on 4TB an d 2TB

30% lower Watts pe r teraby te (W/TB) Improved p ower e iciency compared to prior generation

• Media cache architecture

• Rebuild Assist mode

• SAS 12G b/s and SATA 6Gb/s

• Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS)

• 5-year limited warranty

• Opti onal Bulk Data En cryption (SATA)
& TCG Enterprise_ A (SAS)

• Represents 50% more capacity than prior generation for
lower TCO in the data ce nter

• Enables higher capacities

• Compatibili ty with le gacy sys tems

• Enables 25% h igher sequential per formance (6TB) vs . prior
generation Ultrastar 7K4000

• Up to 3X bet ter random write perform ance vs . prior
generation

• Red uces rebuild time for a faile d drive and maintain s system
performance d uring reb uild in a RAID coniguration

• Provid es comp atibility and ea sy integration with h igh­performance data centers

• Maintains drive performance in high rotational vibration
environments and multi-drive systems

• One of the highe st reliability ra tings for C apacity
Enterprise hard drives

• Enables swif t and e icient drive redeployment and
retirement

• Hardware-b ased encryption prote cts data from
unauthorized use

Ultrastar® 7K6000

Speciications

SATA Models SAS Models SATA Models SAS Models

Model / Part No.

HUS7260xxALN61y
HUS7260xxALE61y
HUS7260xxALA61y

Coniguration

Interface SATA 6 Gb/s SAS 12 Gb/s

Capacity (TB)

Sector s ize (bytes)

Max. are al density 512e/4Kn:
(Gbits/sq. in) 512n*:

1

3

6TB / 5TB / 4TB / 2TB ←

4Kn: 40 96,
512n*/512e: 512

703 (6TB), 599 (<6TB)
623

Performance

Data buer (MB)

Rotational speed (RPM) 7200 ←

Latency average, (ms) 4.16 ←

Interface transfer rate (M B/s, max) 600 1200

Sustained transfer rate

(MiB/sec, typ.)

Seek tim e (read/write, ms, ty pical )67.6 / 8.0 ←

4

(MB/sec, typ.)

128 ←

5

216 (6TB), 192 (<6TB)
227 (6TB), 202 (<6TB)

Reliability

Error rate (non-rec overabl e, bits read) 1 in 10

Load/Unload cyc les (at 40 °C) 600,000 ←

MTBF2 (M hours) 2.0 ←

Annualized Failure Rate2 (AFR) 0.44% ←

Availability (hrs/day x days/wk) 24x7 ←

Warranty (yrs) 5 ←

15

Acoustics

Idle/Op erating (Bels, t ypica l) 2.9 / 3.6 ←

Power

Requirement +5 V, + 12 V ←

Operating (W, typ ical)

Idle (W )8 7.1 7.7

Power con sumption eiciency at id le
(Watts/TB)
(Watt s/GB)

7

9.1 11.0

1.2 (6TB)

0.0012 (6TB)

Physical size

z-height (mm, max) 26.1 ←

Dimensions (wid th x depth, m m) 101.6 (+/-0. 25) x 147 ←

Weight (g, max) 715 ←

NOTE: See “How to read the Ultrastar mod el number” for possible values for xx and y

HUS7260xxAL421y
HUS7260xxAL521y
HUS7260xxALS21y

4Kn: 40 96, 4112, 4160, 42 24
512n*/512e: 512, 520, 528

←

←

←

←

1.3 (6TB)

0.0013 (6TB)

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3.5- INCH E NTERPR ISE 720 0 RPM HAR D DISK D RIVES

Environmental (operating)

Ambient temperature 5o to 60o C ←

Shock (half-sine wave 2 ms, G) 70 ←

Vibration (G RMS, 5 to 5 00 Hz) 0.67 (XY Z) ←

Environmental (non-operating)

Ambient temperature -40o to 70o C ←

Shock (half-sine wave, 1ms, G) 300 ←

Vibration (G RMS, 5 to 5 00 Hz) 1.04 (XYZ) ←

1

One MB is e qual to one million by tes, one GB is e qual to one billion by tes and one TB eq uals 1,000G B (one

trillion by tes) when referring to h ard drive capacit y. Accessible ca pacity will var y from the stated cap acity due
to formattin g and partitio ning of the hard drive, t he computer’s op erating system, an d other factors.

2

MTBF and A FR speciic ations are based o n a sample popu lation and are esti mated by statistica l measurement s

and acceleration algorithms under typical operating conditions for this drive model. MTBF and AFR ratings do
not predic t an individual d rive’s reliability a nd do not constitu te a warranty.

3

Advance d Format drive: 4K (409 6-byte) physic al sec

4

Portio n of buer capaci ty used for drive i rmware

5

MiB/s is 220 bytes, MB/s is 1 06 bytes

6

Excludes command overhead

7

SATA models: 8K Qu eue Depth = 1 @ 40 IOP S, SAS models: 4 K Queue Depth = 4

8

Idle spe ciication i s based on use of I dle_A

How to read the Ultrast ar model number

Example: HUS7260x xAL421y = xTB, 4Kn SAS 12Gb/s

H = HGST

U = Ultrasta r

S = Standard (vs. C for Compact)

72 = 7200 RPM

60 = Full capacity — 6TB

xx = Capa city this model

6 0 = 6TB, 50 = 5TB,

4 0 = 4TB, 20 = 2TB

A = Generation cod e

L = 26.1mm z-height

*Available in 4TB and 2T B capacities

42 = Interface, 4Kn SAS 12Gb/s

52 = 512e SAS 12Gb/s

E6 = 512e SATA 6Gb/s

N 6 = 4Kn SATA 6Gb/s

A6 *= 512n SATA 6Gb/s

S 2*= 512n SAS 12Gb/s

1 = 128MB buer

y = Data Sec urity Mode

0 = Inst ant S ec ure Er as e

1 = Bulk Data Encry ption (SATA),

TCG SED enc ryptio n (SAS)

4 = Secure Erase (overwrite only)

5 = TCG encr yption with FIPS (SAS)

HGST Quality and Service

HGST’s Ultrastar 7K6000 extends the company’s long-standing tradition
of performance and capacity leadership. The proven drive design
enables high reliability and availability to customer data. Ultrastar
quality, performance and world class technical support and service
provides customers with a lower total cost of ownership over previous
generations.

HGST drives are backed by an array of technical support and services,
which may include customer and integration assistance. HGST is
dedicated to providing a complete portfolio of HDD/SSD solutions to
satisfy today’s monumental computing needs.

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