WD Ultrastar 12TB DC HC520 - HUH721212AL4204
WD Ultrastar 12TB DC HC520 - HUH721212AL4204
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WD Ultrastar 0F29562 DC HC520 12TB HDD SAS-12Gbps 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive HUH721212AL4204
The WD Ultrastar HC520 12TB Internal Hard Drive HUH721212AL4204 is a high-capacity storage solution designed to meet the demanding needs of enterprise-level environments. With its 7200 RPM performance, this HDD provides fast data access and reliable performance, making it ideal for cloud storage, data centers, and big data applications. Built with advanced technologies, the Ultrastar HC520 ensures durability and long-term reliability, featuring a helium-sealed design that reduces power consumption and improves efficiency. It also supports 256MB cache, enhancing data transfer speeds and overall system performance. With a focus on data integrity and security, this drive includes features like rotational vibration safeguards and error correction, ensuring your data is protected even in the most intensive workloads. The Ultrastar HC520 is a trusted choice for organizations that require robust, large-scale storage solutions, offering a balance of capacity, performance, and reliability.
More Value to the Data Center with Capacity, Power Efficiency and Reliability
Laying the foundation for a worry free data center, Western Digital delivers 12TB capacity drive to conquer the data explosion Ultrastar DC HC520, previously known as Ultrastar He12 and part of our HC500 series of helium-filled hard drives. Designed to handle workloads up to 550TB per year, the Ultrastar DC HC520 is the industry’s first 12TB1 drive and uses traditional perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to make it dropin ready for any enterprise-capacity application or environment. The stable internal environment created by fourth-generation HelioSeal technology enables a new 8-disk design, increasing the capacity by 20% when compared to the 7-disk design of the prior generation, Ultrastar DC HC510. This high capacity helium drive offers one of the lowest power profiles in the industry to help data center architects meet eco-environmental goals and requirements. Targeted at 2.5M hours MTBF2, the Ultrastar DC HC520 provides the highest reliability rating available of all HDDs on the market today by building on the successful design of its 10TB, 8TB and 6TB predecessors. Trust Western Digital and the Ultrastar DC HC520 to deliver more capacity, more efficiency, 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 flat. Lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) has become the focus of data center architects and the Ultrastar DC HC520 provides the best value proposition and greatest storage efficiency available. Compared to 8TB Ultrastar air-filled drives, this HelioSeal hard drive provides 50% more capacity, uses 52% less power (Watts/TB), and is 25% more reliable, rated at 2.5M hours MTBF. Datacenter ready features like a second generation dual-stage actuator the Western Digital Micro Actuator enhance 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.
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Western Digital is a global leader in high-performance data storage, engineered for reliability, speed, and endurance. From HDDs to SSDs, WD drives deliver advanced technology and trusted performance for demanding workloads and professional applications.
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