HGST Ultrastar He12 0F30146 (HUH721212ALE604) 12TB 7200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5″ Hard Drives

PMR technology works with all capacity enterprise applications & environments

Reliable, field-proven, 4th generation design

Outstanding power efficiency (Watts/TB)

Compared to 8TB Ultrastar air-filled drives:
– 50% more capacity
– 52% more power efficient (Watts/TB)
– 25% more reliable

SATA 6Gb/s and SAS 12Gb/s:
– 12Gb/s SAS compatible with next gen data centers; backwards compatible with 6Gb/s SAS

2.5M hours MTBF rating

Instant Secure Erase (ISE) & Self-Encrypting Drive (TCG SAS) options

Advanced Format 4Kn and 512e models

Applications/Environments:
Enterprise and data center applications where capacity density, power efficiency and reliability are paramount
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 Hadoop to support Big Data Analytics
Centralized video surveillance
Ideal for all mainstream enterprise capacity applications