Ultrastar He6
6TB
3.5-inch Helium Platform
Enterprise Hard Drive
6TB
3.5-inch Helium Platform
Enterprise Hard Drive
- World’s first helium HDD – Patented HelioSeal™ technology enables this new building block for future growth
- Industry’s first 6TB HDD – Innovative 7Stac™ disk design enables the world’s highest capacity
- TCOptimized™ platform – Delivers higher capacity, lower power, cooler and quieter operation in a standard 3.5-inch form factor
Data SheetHGST delivers the world’s first hermetically sealed, helium hard drive, the Ultrastar® He6 for massive scale-out environments. Why does helium make a difference? Helium has only one-seventh the density of air. Replacing air with helium inside a hard drive dramatically reduces the turbulence caused by the spinning disk, cuts power consumption and results in a lower temperature within the disk drive. The reduction in turbulence for the spinning disk allows HGST to offer a seven-disk design in a traditional 3.5-inch form factor. In addition to being the world’s first helium-filled hard drive, HGST Ultrastar He6 is also the first hard drive in the industry to offer a 6-terabyte capacity. This design delivers a 50% capacity gain and still reduces the energy needed to run the drive by up to 23%.
Highlights
- Highest capacity HDD on the market; 6TB, seven-disk design, providing the best TCO
- Lowest power consumption with best watts-per-TB
- - 23% lower idle power per drive
- - 49% better watts-per-TB
- Best density footprint in a standard 3.5-inch form factor
- - 50% higher capacity
- Lighter weight than a standard five-disk 3.5-inch drive
- - 50g lighter even with two more disks, offering 50% more capacity
- - 38% lower weight-per-TB
Applications/Environments
- High-density data centers
- Massive scale-out data centers
- Containerized data centers
- Nearline storage applications
- Bulk storage
- Enterprise and data center applications where density and capacity are paramount
| He6 | 512n Format | |||
| SATA | ISE | SE | BDE (w ISE) | |
| 6TB | -- | 0F18335 HUS726060ALA640 |
0F20572 HUS726060ALA641 |
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| SAS | ISE | SE | TCG | |
| 6TB | 0F18370 HUS726060ALS640 |
-- | 0F20577 HUS726060ALS641 |
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- ISE = Instant Secure Erase
- SE = Secure Erase
- BDE or TCG Encryption
- TCG FIPS = Encryption w/FIPS