HGST ships 4TB MegaScale HDD
HGST announced that it is shipping its new MegaScale DC 4000.B, a 3.5-inch, 4TB, 6 GB/s SATA hard disk drive (HDD). As the company’s second-generation MegaScale drive, the new MegaScale DC 4000.B has been further optimized based on customer feedback to meet the explosive growth of infrequently accessed data, while balancing the right mix of power, capacity, performance and reliability.
As part of a tiered storage strategy, the MegaScale DC 4000.B is designed for low-workload applications such as bulk storage for unstructured or big data, disk-to-disk backup, online archives, or long-term data retention where cost-per-GB, watt-per-GB and GB-per-square foot are critical parameters.
Brendan Collins, VP of Product Marketing, HGST said, With the explosive adoption of free email, social networks and Internet services, the capacity requirements for cloud and hyper scale data centers are growing astronomically. With the MegaScale DC 4000.B, we’re delivering massive capacity in a low-power, performance-optimized drive to help customers achieve superior capital savings, operational efficiencies and energy conservation in the data center.
The MegaScale DC 4000.B HDD with CoolSpin performance is ideal for 24/7 low-workload environments that operate within 180TB per year.
Used in cloud and corporate data centers around the world, the Ultrastar 7K4000 family sets the benchmark for 7,200 RPM high-performance, high-quality and high-reliability in workloads that operate within 550TB/year.
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