• Second generation of the first 2.5-inch, mainstream capacity, 15mmz-height, nearline enterprise drive for space-constrained data centers
• Choose 6Gb/s SAS for data integrity, scalability and fast data access,or SATA 6Gb/s for fast, economical Tier 2/nearline performance.
• The industry’s highest-reliability 7200-RPM drive, designed for 24×7operation with MTBF of 1.4M hours and AFR of 0.62%
• Enterprise-class firmware features and best-in-class rotational vibrationtolerance maximize system availability and performance.
• Lowest operating power (under 6.4W) and enhanced PowerChoice™options for additional power savings during slow or idle periods;Workload Management™ technology helps systems keep drives cool.
• Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option (AES-256) cuts IT drive retirementcosts while securely protecting data where it lives—on the drive.1
• FIPS 140-2 Validated™ drives protect Sensitive but Unclassified andProtected class data.1,2Best-Fit Applications
• Storage-hungry business applications
• Storage area networks (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS)
• Maximum-capacity servers and blade servers
• Rich media content storage
• Enterprise backup and restore—D2D, virtual tape
• Cloud computing
