
Ultrastar
®
DC HC510
DATA S H EE T
10TB & 8TB | 7200 RPM | SATA 6Gb/s & SAS 12Gb/s
Highlights
• 10TB capacity¹ in a standard 3.5-inch form factor
• PMR technology works with all capacity
enterprise applications & environments
• Reliable, fi eld-proven, 3rd generation design
• Superior power effi ciency (Watts/TB)
• Compared to our 8TB air drives
— 25% more capacity
— 43% more power effi cient (Watts/TB)
— 25% more reliable (MTBF)
• SATA 6Gb/s and SAS 12Gb/s
— 12Gb/s SAS compatible with next-gen data
centers; backwards compatible with 6Gb/s SAS
• 2.5M hours MTBF
• Instant Secure Erase (ISE) & Self-Encrypting Drive
(SED) options
²
rating & 5-year limited warranty
Applications/Environments
• Enterprise and data center applications where
capacity density and power effi ciency are
paramount
• Cloud & Hyperscale storage
• Massive scale-out high-density data centers
(MSO)
• Bulk storage using object storage solutions
like Ceph
Analytics
• Centralized video surveillance
• Drop-in ready for all mainstream enterprise
capacity applications
™
and Hadoop® to support Big Data
3.5-INCH HELIUM PLATFORM DATA CENTER HARD DRIVES
Industry’s Best Capacity, Power Effi ciency and
Reliability Delivers Value to the Data Center
Laying the foundation for a worry-free data center, Western Digital delivers an
exceptional capacity hard drive for the enterprise – Ultrastar DC HC510, previously
known as Ultrastar He10 and part of our HC500 series of helium-fi lled hard drives.
Designed to handle workloads up to 550TB per year, the Ultrastar DC HC510 uses PMR
technology and is the industry’s fi rst 10TB drive that is drop-in ready for any enterprisecapacity application or environment. Based on fi eld proven, third-generation HelioSeal
technology, it offers one of the lowest power profi les in the industry to help data center
architects meet eco-environmental goals and requirements. Targeted at 2.5M hours
MTBF, the DC HC510 provides the highest reliability rating available of all HDDs on the
market today by building on the successful design of its 8TB and 6TB predecessors. Trust
Western Digital and Ultrastar DC HC510 to deliver more capacity, more effi ciency, more
reliability and more value to your data center.
®
HelioSeal® Technology Helps Solve Challenges
Facing Next Generation Data Centers
Data centers are facing growing pressures. Data volume is expanding, operating costs
are rising, yet budgets remain fl at. Lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) has
become the focus of data center architects and the Ultrastar DC HC510 provides the
best value proposition and greatest storage effi ciency available. Compared to our 8TB
air-fi lled drives, this HelioSeal hard drive provides 25% more capacity, uses 28% less
idle power, is 43% more power effi cient (Watts/TB), and is 25% more reliable, rated
at 2.5M hours MTBF. New features include a second-generation, dual-stage actuator—
the Western Digital Micro-Actuator—enhancing head-positioning accuracy to deliver
better performance, data integrity and overall drive reliability, especially in multi-drive
environments where operational vibration is present. Refer to our technical brief to learn
more. A choice of 6Gb/s SATA and 12Gb/s SAS interface enables easy integration into
high performance data centers.
Data Durability and Security with Industry-Leading
Quality and Reliability
As drive capacity grows beyond single-digit TBs, object storage systems with erasure
coding provide better data durability compared to RAID systems, given its tolerance
for simultaneous errors conditions. Ultrastar DC HC510 is a best-fi t for object storage
implementations given its massive capacity and industry-leading reliability rating.
Compliance and privacy requirements drive the need for increased data security.
Ultrastar DC HC510 offers security and encryption options to protect data from
unauthorized use, including a new option for TCG support on some SATA models.
Western Digital Quality and Service
Ultrastar DC HC510 extends Western Digital’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 service
and support provides customers with a lower total cost of ownership over previous
generations. Ultrastar drives are backed by an array of technical support and services,
which may include customer and integration assistance. Dedicated to providing a
complete portfolio of devices and systems, Western Digital products help create
environments for data to thrive.
25%
MO RE CAPACITY *
43%
LOWER WATTS/TB*
25%
MORE RELIABLE*
*Compa red to 8TB air-fi lled Ultrastar hard drives

Ultrastar
®
DC HC510
DATA S H EE T 3.5-INCH HELIUM PLATFORM DATA CENTER HARD DRIVES
Features & Benefits
Feature / Function Benefits
Capacity • 10TB and 8TB • 10TB provides 25% m ore capacity than 8TB drives
Power Efficiency • Ver y low Watts per terabyte ( W/TB) • 4 3% lower idle W/TB tha n our 8TB air drives
Performance • Dual-Stage Micro Actuator
Reliability • Dual safe fir mware
Data Security • Instant Secure Erase
• Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS)
• NVC Quick Cache (SAS only)
• Media cache architecture
• Rebuild Assist mode
• SATA 6Gb/s & SAS 12Gb/s
• 256MB cache buffer
• 2.5M hours MTBF
• 5-year limited warranty
• New TCG option for SATA mo dels
2
and 0.35% AFR
• More accurate head positioning, especially in multi-drive environments, for better performance, data integrity and reliability
• Maintains drive performance in high rotational vibration environments and multi-drive systems
• Better random write pe rformance
• D ramatically improves RAID recovery time and maintains system per forman ce during recovery
• Provides compatibility with high-performance data centers
• Improves resp onse time an d data mana gement
• Re tains previous firmware version for s afe firmware u pdates
2
• Industry’s highest reliability ratin g for Capacity Enterprise HDD for fewer failures/less service needs
• Enables swift and efficient drive redeployment and retirement
• Hardware-based encr yption protects data from unau thorized use
Specifications
SATA Models SAS Models
Model No. HUH7210xxALE60y
HUH7210xxALN60y
HUH7210xxAL420y
HUH7210xxAL520y
Configuration
Interface SATA 6Gb /s SAS 12Gb/s
Capacity1 (TB) 10TB / 8TB
Format: Sector size3 (bytes) 4Kn: 4096
Max. Areal density (Gbits/sq. in.) 816 (10TB)
512e: 512
4Kn: 4096, 4112 , 4160, 4224
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512e: 512, 520, 528
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Performance
Data buffer4 (MB) 256
Rotational speed (RPM) 7200
Latency average (ms) 4.16
Inter face transfer rate (MB/s, max )
Susta ined transfer rate5
(MiB/s, typical)
(MB/s, typical)
6
Seek time
(read/write, ms, typical) 8.0/8.6
600 1200
237 / 215
249 / 225
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Reliability
Error ra te
(non-recoverable, bits read)
Load/Unload cycles
(at 40 ºC)
Availability
(hrs/day x d ays/wk)
2
MTBF
(M ho urs) 2.5
Annualized Failure Rate2 (AFR) 0.35%
Warranty (yrs) 5
1
One meg abyte (MB) is equa l to one million by tes,
one giga byte (GB) is equal to 1,0 00MB (one billion
bytes), and on e terabyte (TB) is equ al to 1,000GB
(one trillion bytes) when referring to storage
capaci ty. Accessible cap acity will va ry from the
stated c apacity due to for matting, syste m software ,
and other factors.
2
MTBF and AF R specification s are based on a
sample population and are estimated by statistical
measurements and acceleration algorithms under
typic al operatin g condition s for this drive mo del.
1 in 10
600,000
24×7
3
4
5
6
7
8
15
MTBF and AF R ratings do not pred ict an individua l
drive’s rel iability an d do not constitute a w arranty.
Advance d Format drive: 4 K (4096-byte) physic al
sectors
Portion of buffer capacity used for drive firmware
MiB/s is 220 bytes, MB/s is 106 bytes
Excludes command overhead
SATA models: 8K Queu e Depth = 1 @ 40 IOPS, SA S
models : 4K Queue Dept h = 4 @ Max IOPS
Idle spe cification is base d on use of Idle_A
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SATA Models SAS Models
Acoustics
Idle (Bels, typical) 2.0/3.6
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Power
Requirement +5 VDC, +12VDC
7
Operating
Idle8 (W) 5.0 5.8
Power cons umption ef ficiency at Idle (W/TB)
(Wat ts/TB)
(Wa tt s/GB)
6.8 9.5
0.50
0.00050
←
0.58
0.00058
Physical Size
z-height (mm) 26.1
Dimensions (width x depth, mm) 101.6 (+/-0.25) x 147
Weight (g, max) 660
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Environmental (Operating)
Ambient temperature 5º to 60º C
Shock (h alf-sine wave 2 m s, G) 70
Vibration (G RMS 5 to 500 Hz) 0.67 (XYZ)
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Environmental (Non-Operating)
Ambient temperature -40º to 70º C ←
Shock (h alf-sine wave, G) 300 (2ms) / 150 (11ms) ←
Random vibration
(G RMS 2 to 200 Hz)
NOTE: See “How to read the Ult rastar model number” below for possible v alues for x x and y.
How to Read the Ultrastar Model Number
Example: HUH7210x xAL420y = 7200 RPM, xxTB, 4Kn SAS 12Gb/s
H = Western Digital
U = Ultrastar
H = Helium (vs. S for Standard)
72 = 7200 RPM
10 = Full capacity—10TB (10,000GB)
xx = Cap acity this model (10 = 10TB, 08 = 8TB)
A = Generation code
L = 26.1mm z-height
1.04 (XYZ)
42 = Interface, 4Kn SAS 12Gb/s
(52 = 512e SAS 12Gb/s, E6 = 512e
SATA 6Gb/s, N6 = 4Kn SATA 6Gb/s)
0 = Reserved
y = Data Security Mode
0 = Instant Secure Erase
1 = Self-encrypting Drive (SED)**
4 = Secure Erase (overwrite only)
5 = TCG encryption with FIPS (SAS)
** Bulk Data Encryption+TCG (SATA), TCG (SAS)
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