Ultrastar 4TB 7200RPM Enterprise Hard Drive

The Ultrastar 7K4000 is a high-capacity enterprise-class hard drive that offers the industry's highest capacity at 4 terabytes, with a 7,200 RPM performance in a standard 3.5-inch form factor. Featuring Advanced Format technology, which increases the sector size from 512 bytes to 4,096 (4K) bytes, this drive boasts improved error correction capabilities and increased storage capacity.

With a 64MB cache buffer and a 6Gb/s SATA interface, the Ultrastar 7K4000 is an ideal storage platform for enterprise computing. Leveraging eighth-generation power management technology, including power-saving innovations like HiVERT technology, this drive delivers excellent power efficiency and thermal emissions, helping manufacturers meet energy compliance targets and extend the drive's lifespan.

The Ultrastar 7K4000 is the world's first 4TB 7,200 RPM hard drive with a 2.0 million hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) specification, backed by a full 5-year warranty. This sixth-generation HGST 5-platter design has been field-proven by top server and storage OEMs, as well as Internet giants, and is engineered for the highest quality, undergoing rigorous design tests during development and stringent ongoing reliability testing during manufacturing.

Addressing the growing demand for efficient storage in data centers, the Ultrastar 7K4000 offers 33% more capacity in the same footprint, with 24% lower watts per gigabyte (W/GB) than its predecessor, the Ultrastar 7K3000. This allows for the storage of 2.4 petabytes in the footprint of a standard 19-inch enterprise storage rack by stacking ten 4U, 60-bay enclosures.

As an Advanced Format drive, the Ultrastar 7K4000 utilizes a 4,096-byte sector size to provide enormous capacity earlier than otherwise possible for environments optimized for this technology. It is also backwards compatible with legacy 512-byte sector size through built-in 512-byte emulation via the SATA interface.

Operating at 7,200 RPM, the Ultrastar 7K4000 offers better overall performance than slower RPM capacity-oriented drives, while maintaining impressively low power consumption rates. The drive's five Advanced Power Management modes achieve a 59% reduction in watts during low RPM idle mode, and use less than 1W during standby/sleep modes, freeing up valuable headroom for growing enterprise needs.

The Ultrastar 7K4000's halogen-free design and power-efficient operation qualify it for the HGST EcoTrac classification, which identifies products that minimize environmental impact in the areas of product design, manufacturing, operation, and disposal.

Ultrastar 7K4000 extends HGST's longstanding tradition of performance and capacity leadership, with a proven drive design that enables high reliability and availability to customer data. Ultrastar quality, performance, and world-class technical support and service provide customers with a lower total cost of ownership over previous generations.

Key features of the Ultrastar 7K4000 include: - 2.0 million hours MTBF - Advanced Format (4096-byte sectors) - 512-byte emulation (512e) - 6 Gb/s SATA interface - Dual-stage actuator (DSA) and Enhanced Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) for robust performance in multi-drive environments - Enormous 4 TB of enterprise-class capacity - 7,200 RPM performance - 5-year warranty

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