Western Digital WD6001F4PZ User Manual

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WD Ae

Datacenter Archive HDD

The cost-effective, energy-efcient HDD cold storage solution.

The WD Ae hard drive delivers cost-effective, high capacity disk­layer storage for cold data archive systems. These drives are built
with features that address the unique requirements of cold data
archiving, including an energy-efcient design, long life cycle TCO,
and competitive dollars per gigabyte.

INTERFACE

SATA 6 Gb/s

MODEL NUMBER

WD6001F4PZ

Product Benets

Energy efcient

Reduced media spin lowers power
consumption and optimizes the
drive’s read/write ratio for the
rigid requirements of cold storage
systems.

Proven cold storage reliability

With 700 PBs of cold storage
deployed in datacenters already,*
WD’s 4th generation WD Ae drive
utilizes innovative technology to
reduce power consumption and
lower operating temperature,
which results in a more reliable and
affordable solution for cold storage
data archives.

Cost-effective capacity storage

Moving cold data to value-optimized
archive media delivers signicant
TCO savings by freeing up expensive
performance-critical storage system
capacity.

* Data reects archive drive shipments as of August 2014.

FORM FACTOR

3.5-inch

Cold data power management

Competitive power management,
reduced heat output, and next­generation technologies such as
IntelliSeek
balance of performance and power
perfect for cold data archive storage
architectures.

Quick to ready

Access time to cold data is quickly
becoming a critical feature of an
on-line archive system and end
users can’t wait hours or days for
this data to become available. The
spin-down capability of the WD Ae
drive provides much faster access
times than conventional archive tape
with data access times of less than
20 seconds for on-demand data
requests.

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combine to deliver a

ROTATIONAL SPEED

5760 RPM

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3D Active Balance

Our enhanced dual-plane balance
control technology signicantly
improves the overall drive
performance and reliability. Hard
drives that are not properly balanced
may cause excessive vibration and
noise in a multi-drive system, reduce
the hard drive life span, and degrade
the performance over time.

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NoTouch

The recording head never touches
the disk media ensuring signicantly
less wear to the recording head
and media as well as better drive
protection in transit.

ramp load technology

Plus

CAPACITY

6.0 TB

Dual actuator technology

A head positioning system with two
actuators that improves positional
accuracy over the data track(s). The
primary actuator provides coarse
displacement using conventional
electromagnetic actuator principles.
The secondary actuator uses
piezoelectric motion to ne tune the
head positioning to a higher degree
of accuracy.

24x7 dedicated customer support

Every WD Ae hard drive comes with
our world-class professional support
services including a dedicated 24x7
support line (available in English,
other regional support hours vary)
and a 3-year limited warranty.

Applications

The WD Ae hard drive is best suited for cold storage, backup and data archiving where data is stored on disk but rarely if almost never read again yet may be
critical at some future point, prime examples being legal data or photo backups.

WD Ae

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Specications

Formatted capacity

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WD6001F4PZ

6.0 TB
User sectors per drive 11,721,045,168
Interface SATA 6 Gb/s
Form factor 3.5-inch
Physical bytes per sector 4096
Host bytes per sector 512
RoHS compliant

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Yes

Performance

Data transfer rate (max)
Buffer to host
Host to/from drive (sustained)

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6 Gb/s

>150 MB/s
Cache (MB) 64
Rotational speed (RPM) 5760

Reliability/Data Integrity

Load/unload cycles
Non-recoverable read errors per bits read <1 in 10
MTBF (hours)
Limited warranty (years)

4

5

6

300,000

500,000

3

14

Power Management

Average power requirements (W)
Sequential read
Sequential write
Random read/write
Idle

Environmental Specications

Temperature (°C)
Operating
Non-operating

Shock (Gs)
Operating (2 ms, read/write)
Operating (2 ms, read)
Non-operating (2 ms)

Acoustics (dBA)
Idle
Seek (average)

8

7

6.4

6.5

4.9

4.8

10 to 55

-40 to 70

30

65

300

25

28

Physical Dimensions

Height (in./mm, max) 1.028/26.1
Length (in./mm, max) 5.787/147
Width (in./mm, ± .01 in.) 4/101.6
Weight (lb/kg, ± 3%) 1.58/0.72

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Not all products may be available in all regions of the world.

2

As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, 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 specication published by the SATA-IO organization as of the date of this specication sheet. Visit www.sata-io.org
for details.

3

WD 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.

4

Controlled unload at ambient condition.

5

Product MTBF and AFR specications are based upon a 40°C base casting and a system workload of 60 TB/year (workload is dened as the amount of user data transferred to or from the hard drive).

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See http://support.wd.com/warranty for regional specic warranty details.

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No non-recoverable errors during operating tests or after non-operating tests.

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Sound power level.

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