💎 EMC 1.2TB 10K SAS 12Gb/s Enterprise Hard DriveModel: HUC101812CSS200 | EMC PN: 005052744 | HGST PN: 0B31816 | 10,000 RPM | 12Gb/s SAS

The EMC 005052744 (manufactured by HGST as the Ultrastar C10K1800 series) is a high-performance mission-critical drive designed for the most demanding storage environments. Operating at 10,000 RPM with a modern 12Gb/s SAS interface, this drive is specifically firmware-tuned for EMC Unity and VNX2 arrays. It provides a massive capacity-to-performance ratio in a compact 2.5-inch form factor, making it the industry standard for enterprise-class virtualization and database workloads.

📊 Technical Specifications

• Capacity: 💾 1.2 TB

• Interface: ⚡ SAS 12Gb/s (Dual Port)

• Spindle Speed: 🏎️ 10,000 RPM

• Cache: 🧠 128 MB

• Form Factor: 📏 2.5-inch SFF

• Sector Format: 💾 520bps (EMC Native)

• MTBF: 🛡️ 2.0 Million Hours

• Recording Technology: 🖋️ CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording)

✅ Why This Drive Rocks

• Condition: ✨ Refurbished - Excellent. Professionally audited and health-verified. These drives undergo rigorous testing for spindle stability and head-seeking accuracy to ensure they meet the zero-tolerance standards of EMC storage arrays.

• EMC Authenticated Firmware: Features genuine EMC firmware (PN 118000059-01), ensuring it is immediately recognized by EMC Unity and VNX Operating Environments. This prevents "unsupported drive" errors and ensures the drive participates correctly in RAID rebuilds.

• 12Gb/s SAS Performance: Optimized for high-throughput backplanes, providing double the bandwidth of legacy 6G SAS drives for faster data access and lower latency.

• 2.0M Hour MTBF: One of the most reliable 10K drives ever engineered, designed for a 0.44% Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) in 24/7 heavy-workload environments.

• Media Cache Technology: HGST’s advanced disk-based caching architecture significantly improves write performance during high-intensity random workloads, outperforming standard 10K drives.

📦 Compatibility & Use Case

• Target Systems: Optimized for EMC Unity (300, 400, 500, 600) and EMC VNX2 series (VNX5200, 5400, 5600, 5800).

• Ideal Workloads: Tier-1 storage pools, virtual machine hosting (VMware/Hyper-V), high-transaction SQL databases, and mission-critical application data.

• Note: This drive is pre-formatted to 520-byte sectors. While it can be reformatted to 512-byte for standard servers, its highest value is as a specialized replacement for EMC storage systems.