Highlights
• Designed with a workload rating up to 550TB per
year, 10X typical desktop rating
• Up to 2.5M hours MTBF with a 5-year limited
warranty
• Five generations of HelioSeal technology (10TB
and above)
• Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) technology
for vibration protection
• Works with all major enterprise operating
systems
Ultrastar® SATA Series
DATA CENTER DRIVESDATA SH E E T
Ultrastar hard drives feature up to 10 times the workload rating of desktop drives and
employ advanced technologies for enterprise-class reliability, power efficiency and
performance. Designed from the ground up to be an ultra-robust storage device, Ultrastar
drives are the perfect solution for your business.
High Workload Rating
Delivering dependable performance to any storage environment, Ultrastar hard drives
are designed with a workload rating up to 550TB per year*, among the highest of any
3.5-inch hard drive.
Enterprise-class Storage to Rely On
Ultrastar is our top-end drive for data centers. With up to 2.5 million hours MTBF,
Ultrastar hard drives deliver reliability and durability, are built for yearly operation
(24×7×365) within the most demanding storage environments, and are backed with a
5-year limited warranty.
HelioSeal® Technology
Featured in over 30 million Western Digital hard drives shipped**, HelioSeal technology
allows for higher capacities and lower power on large storage arrays. And now on its
5th generation design, HelioSeal technology is field-tested and proven to deliver high
capacity, reliability, and power efficiency you can trust. HelioSeal is a key technology on
10TB capacities and above.
Vibration Protection
Enhanced Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) technology uses sophisticated
electronics to monitor the drive and correct linear and rotational vibrations in real
time for improved performance versus traditional desktop drives in high-vibration
environments.
Dynamic Fly-height Technology
Each read-write head’s fly height is adjusted in real time to ensure consistent
performance for reduced errors and optimized reliability.
INTERFACE
SATA 6 Gb/s
FORM FACTOR
3.5-inch
PERFORMANCE CLASS
7200 RPM-Class
CAPACITIES***
1TB to 14TB
ULTR A S TA R ADVANTAG E
The Ultrastar family delivers a long-standing
tradition of reliability leadership with MTBF ratings
of at least 2M hours and a 5-year limited warranty.
Ultrastar capacity, power efficiency and reliability
provide customers with a lower total cost of
ownership.
Dual-stage Actuator Technology
Ultrastar drives feature a dual-stage actuator head positioning system for a high degree
of accuracy. The primary stage provides course displacement while the secondary
stage uses piezoelectric motion to fine tune the head positioning to a higher degree of
precision.
Compatibility testing
All Ultrastar hard drives are extensively tested across a variety of popular OEM storage
systems, SATA controllers, and host bus adapters to ensure ease of integration for a plug
and play solution.
7200RPM-Class
This family of 7200RPM-class hard drives delivers the fastest performance with the
highest workload rating of any drive in Western Digital’s hard drive lineup. Ensure you
have the most capable hard drive regardless of the application with Ultrastar hard
drives.
*Workload Rate is define d as the am ount of u ser dat a transferre d to or from the hard drive. Wor kload Rate is
annualized (T B trans ferre d X (8760 / recorde d power-on h ours). Workload Rate will vary dep ending on your
hardware and software components and configurations.
** As of July 2018.
*** As used for storage capacity, one gigabyte (GB) = billion by tes and o ne tera byte (T B) = one tri llion by tes. Total
accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) =
1,048,576 by tes. As us ed for tr ansfe r rate or interf ace, me gabyte per second (MB/s) = one million by tes per second,
and gigabit pe r secon d (Gb/s) = one billion b its pe r secon d. Eff ective maxim um SATA 6 Gb/s transfer rate calculated
according to the Serial ATA specification published by th e SATA-IO orga nizat ion as of t he date of t his spe cification
sheet. Visit www.sata-io.org for details.
Ultrastar
®
SATA S e r i es
DATA SH E E T
Specifications
Part Number
Ultrastar DC family
14TB 12TB 10TB 8TB 6TB 4TB 2TB 1TB
0F31284 0F3 014 6* 0F27606* 0B36404 0B36039 0B35950 1W10002* 1W10001*
HC530 HC520 HC510 HC320 HC310 HC310 HA210 HA210
DATA CENTER DRIVES
Capacity 14TB 12TB 10TB 8TB 6TB 4TB 2TB 1TB
Interface SATA 6 G b/s SATA 6 G b/s SATA 6 G b/s SATA 6 G b/s SATA 6 G b/s SATA 6 G b/s SATA 6 G b/s SATA 6 G b/s
Format Sector size (bytes) 512e 512e 512e 512e 512e 512n 512n 512n
Native Command Queuing Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Form factor 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch
RoHS compliant Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Performance
Interface transfer rate
(max sustained)
Performance Class 7200 RPM 7200 RPM 7200 RPM 7200 RPM 7200 RPM 7200 RPM 7200 RPM 7200 RPM
Cache (MB) 512 256 256 256 256 256 128 128
267 M B/s 255 MB/s 249 M B/s 22 5 M B/s 23 3 MB/s 233 M B/s 200 MB/s 18 4 MB /s
Reliability
MTBF (hours) 2,500,000 2,500,000 2,500,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000
Annualized Failure Rate (AFR, %) 0.35 0. 35 0.35 0.44 0.4 4 0.44 0.44 0.44
Load/unload cycles 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000
Error rate (non-recoverable) <1 in 10
15
<1 in 10
15
<1 in 10
14
<1 in 10
14
<1 in 10
14
<1 in 10
14
<1 in 10
14
<1 in 10
Limited warranty (years) 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
Power Management
Average power requirements (W)
Operational
Idle
Power efficiency index (W/TB, idle)
8
7.6
5.6
0.4
6.3
5.0
0.417
6.8
5.0
0.5
8.8
7.4
0.925
7
5.9
0.983
7
5.9
1.475
8.1
5.9
2.95
8.1
5.9
5.9
Environmental Specifications
Temperature (°C, on the base casting)
Operating
Non-operating
Shock (G s)
Operating (half-sine wave, 2ms)
Non-operating (half-sine wave, 2ms)
Acoustics (dBA, average)
Idle
Seek
5°C to 60°C
-40°C to 70°C
70G
300G
20
36
5°C to 60°C
-40°C to 70°C
70G
300G
20
36
5°C to 60°C
-40°C to 70°C
70G
300G
20
36
5°C to 60°C
-40°C to 70°C
70G
300G
20
36
5°C to 60°C
-40°C to 70°C
70G
300G
29
36
5°C to 60°C
-40°C to 70°C
70G
300G
29
36
5°C to 60°C
-40°C to 70°C
65G
300G
25
28
5°C to 60°C
-40°C to 70°C
65G
300G
25
28
Physical Dimensions
Height (in./mm, max) 1.02 8/26.1 1.028/26 .1 1.028/26.1 1.028/26.1 1.028/26 .1 1.028/26.1 1.0 28/26.1 1.028/26.1
Length (in./mm, max) 5.787/147 5.787/147 5.787/147 5.787/147 5.787/147 5.787/147 5.787/147 5.787/147
Width (in./mm, ± .01 in.) 4/101.6 4/101.6 4/101.6 4/101.6 4/101.6 4/101.6 4/101.6 4/101.6
Weight (lb/kg, ± 10%) 1. 52/0.69 1 .4 6/0.6 6 1.4 6/0.6 6 1.43/0.65 1.5 8/0. 7 15 1. 58/0. 71 5 1.41/0.6 4 1. 41/0.64
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Not all products may be available in all regions of the world.
As used for storage capacity, one gigabyte (GB) = one
billion bytes and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes.
Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating
environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte
(MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. As used for transfer rate or interface,
megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per
second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits
per second. Effective maximum SATA 6 Gb/s transfer
rate calculated according to the Serial ATA specification
published by the SATA-IO organization as of the date of this
specification sheet. Visit www.sata-io.org for details.
FORMAT: 512e: Advanced Format drive with 512-byte logical
sectors and 4K (4096-byte) physical sectors; 512n: Native
512-byte logical and physical sectors.
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Western Digital hard drive products manufactured and sold
worldwide after June 8, 2011, meet or exceed Restriction of
Hazardous Substances (RoHS) compliance requirements as
mandated by the RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU.
Interface transfer rate: MB/s is 1,000,000 bytes per second.
Cache buffer: Portion of buffer capacity used for drive
firmware.
MTBF and AFR: Specifications are based on a sample
population and are estimated by statistical measurements
and acceleration algorithms under typical operating
conditions for this drive model. MTBF and AFR ratings
do not predict an individual drive’s reliabilityand do not
constitute a warranty.
Operational Power: 8K Queue Depth = 1 @ 40 IOPS; Idle
Power: Based on use of Idle_A
* Some models of Ultrastar, as indicated by an asterisk (*),
are identical in form, fit and function to the respective
WD Gold™ model. The only differences are limited to the
brand, label and ID string as reported by the firmware.
For these drives, any previously completed qualification
of the equivalent WD Gold™ models should not require a
re-qualification.
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November 2018 2879–810017-A00