Product Overview

Western Digital HC320 SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive:

Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) technology utilizes sophisticated electronics to monitor the drive and correct both linear and rotational vibration disturbances in real time especially helpful in multi-drive arrays and rack-mounted systems maintaining high read/write performance. Ultrastar DC HA200 series is offered with a SATA 6 Gb/s interface and native 512-byte (512n) sector size for compatibility with legacy data center applications.

Featuers:

Reliability:

•  RAID-specific time-limited error recovery
•  RAFF™ vibration compenstation technology
•  Multi-axis shock sensor
•  Load/unload ramp technology
•  2M hours MTBF2
•  and 0.44% AFR2

 

 

 

 

 

Performance:

•  Dual-stage actuator
•  Rotational vibration sensor technology
•  SATA 6Gb/s with 512n sectors
•  128MB cache buffer 

•  Popular capacity points for high-intensity applications
•  Accurate head positioning, especially in multi-drive environments, for better   performance, data
•  integrity and reliability
•  Maintains drive performance in high rotational vibration environments and multi-   drive systems
•  Supports legacy enterprise systems
•  Improves response time and data management
•  Reduces drive fallout caused by extended hard drive error-recovery processes
•  Helps maintain performance in high-vibration environments, common in multi-   drive systems
•  Automatically detects the smallest shock events and compenstates to protect the   data
•  Protects user data when power is removed
•  High reliability rating
•  Enterprise-class warranty rating

Specifications:

Interface
SATA 6 Gb/s

Capacity
8TB

Format: Sector size (bytes)
512 native (512n)

Error rate (non-recoverable bits read)
1 in 1015

MTBF (M hours)
2

Annualized Failure Rate (AFR)4
0.44%

Load/Unload cycles (at 40°C)
600,000