Aberdeen Implements HGST 12TB Ultrastar He12

Aberdeen, LLC has maximized storage capacity in servers and storage devices with the implementation of the 12TB Ultrastar He12, helium HDD from HGST, backed by 5-year warranty.

Industry’s best capacity, power efficiency and reliability delivers value to the data center laying the foundation for a worry-free data center, Aberdeen delivers the highest capacity HDD – HGST Ultrastar He12. The He12 uses perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology and is the industry’s first 12TB drive that is drop-in ready for any enterprise-capacity application or environment.

Highlights 

• 12TB capacity in a standard 3.5-inch form factor
• PMR technology works with all capacity enterprise applications and environments
• Reliable, 4th generation design
• Compared to 8TB air drives:
  • 50% more capacity
  • 54% more power efficient (watts/TB)
  • 25% more reliable
• 6Gb SATA and 12Gb SAS:
  • 12Gb SAS compatible with next gen data centers
  • Backwards compatible with 6Gb SAS
• 5 million hours MTBF rating and 5-year warranty
• Instant Secure Erase (ISE) and 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 and 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
• For all mainstream enterprise capacity applications