Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Drives the Data Center Architecture
Datacenter decisions are driven by TCO. Higher-capacity hard drives play a leading role in reducing TCO. An 14TB data center HDD provides 29% more capacity in the same form factor as a 14TB HDD. Higher capacity HDDs enable data centers to lower CapEx by reducing supporting hardware and system-level costs when compared to lower capacity drives. Helium-sealed, low power, high-reliability drives reduce energy and maintenance costs, contributing to OpEx savings. For example, a data center using 18TB HDDs vs. 14TB HDDs requires 22% fewer racks while consuming 21% less power per TB at idle, resulting in significant overall TCO reduction for data center environments.
Highlights
- 14TB capacity in a standard 3.5-inch form factor
- CMR technology works with all capacity enterprise applications & environments
- Reliable, field-proven, 6th generation design
- Industry??s first HDD with Energy-Assisted Magnetic Recording technology
- Industry??s first Triple Stage Actuator
- HelioSeal design delivers outstanding power efficiency
- 2.5M hours (projected) MTBF rating & 5-year limited warranty
- Self-Encrypting Drive Options
Applications
- Cloud & Hyperscale storage
- Massive scale-out (MSO), high-density data centers
- Distributed File Systems
- Bulk storage using object storage solutions like Ceph and OpenStack Swift
- Primary and secondary storage for Apache Hadoop? for Big Data Analytics