HE8 Datasheet, PDF (1/2 Pages) List of Unclassifed Manufacturers – Compared to 6TB air drives

Ultrastar^® He⁸
DATA SHEET
3.5-INCH HELIUM PLATFORM ENTERPRISE HARD DISK DRIVES
Highlights
• Industry’s leading 8TB capacity¹ in a standard
3.5-inch form factor
• Industry’s best Idle and Active power efficiency
(Watts/TB)
• Reliable, field-proven, 2nd generation
HelioSeal® process and 7Stac™ design
• Compared to 6TB air drives
––33% more capacity
––23% lower idle power
––44% more power efficient (Watts/TB)
• 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 MTBF² rating & 5-year limited
warranty
• Instant Secure Erase (ISE) & Self-Encrypting
Drive (SED) options
• Advanced format 4Kn and 512e models
Applications Environments
• Enterprise and data center applications where
capacity density and power efficiency are
paramount
• Cloud & Hyperscale storage
• Massive scale-out High-density data centers
(MSO)
• Distributed Files Systems like Ceph™ and
Hadoop® to support Big Data Analytics
• RAID arrays
• Video surveillance & content distribution
• Ideal for all mainstream enterprise capacity
applications
* VS. 6TB AIR DRIVES
8TB and 6TB | 7200 RPM
SATA 6Gb/s and SAS 12Gb/s
HelioSeal^® Delivers Twice the Capacity Using
One-Quarter Less Power
One-third more capacity and 23% lower energy consumption. Available today.
That’s the power of helium. Delivering the industry’s leading capacity at 8TB,
Ultrastar He8 is based on the widely accepted and proven HelioSeal® plat-
form. HelioSeal technology replaces air with helium inside the drive, reduc-
ing air turbulence and enabling 7Stac™, a seven-disk design in a traditional
3.5-inch form factor. Ultrastar He8 goes beyond what any air-based HDD can
do and seamlessly integrates into virtually any mainstream enterprise environ-
ment. Cooler and quieter with industry-leading power efficiency (Watts/TB)
and no-compromise performance, the Ultrastar He8 lays the foundation for
future growth in massive scale-out environments.
TCOptimized^™ – Increasing Storage Efficiency
to Drive Down Data Center TCO
We recognize the growing pressures that data centers face. Volume is ex-
panding, operating costs are rising while budgets remain flat. Lowering the
total cost of ownership (TCO) has become the focus of data center architects.
Ultrastar He8 provides the best TCO value proposition and delivers greater
storage efficiency with breakthroughs in capacity, power efficiency and
best-in-class performance. This HelioSeal hard drive achieves up to 3X higher
random write performance than the prior generation, Ultrastar He6, thanks to
HGST media cache architecture, a disk-based caching technology. He8 offers
a 12Gb/s SAS (6Gb/s SATA) interface for easy integration into high perfor-
mance data centers. Features like Rebuild Assist dramatically reduce RAID
rebuild times and maintain system performance during the rebuild process.
Learn more in our Rebuild Assist technical brief.
Data Security with Industry-Leading Quality
and Reliability
Compliance and privacy requirements drive the need for increased data secu-
rity. Ultrastar He8 offers security and encryption options to protect data from
unauthorized use. Instant Secure Erase (ISE) models expedite drive redeploy-
ment and retirement. Encryption models protect data with hardware-based
encryption, including a Trusted Computing Group (TCG) option with FIPS
140-2 certification, Level 2. The Ultrastar He8 extends HGST’s long-standing
tradition of reliability leadership with a 2.5M-hour MTBF rating and a 5-year
limited warranty. HGSTs drive reliability and security options also help lower
data center TCO.
HGST Quality and Service
HGST’s Ultrastar He8 extends the company’s long-standing tradition of perfor-
mance and capacity leadership. The proven drive design enables high reliabil-
ity 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
and software solutions to help the world harness the power of data.
33% 23% 44%
MORE CAPACITY*
LOWER IDLE POWER*
BETTER WATTS/TB*