Ultrastar 5K3000

The Hitachi Ultrastar™ 5K3000 is specifically designed for high-capacity enterprise applications where reduced power and lower temperatures are required. Our innovative CoolSpin technology helps the Ultrastar 5K3000 deliver a 45% reduction in read/write power consumption over the Ultrastar 7K3000 7,200 RPM drive. Key to CoolSpin technology is an optimization of motor speed to provide an ideal balance of performance, power utilization and acoustics. Additionally, our Advanced Power Management offers five levels of granularity to help manage power consumption including: normal idle, unload idle, low RPM idle, standby, and sleep. The standby and sleep modes consume less than 1 watt, enabling archival applications to remain online and ready to respond, yet at eco-friendly power levels.

1 Intended for use in lower duty cycle environments in the enterprise storage hierarchy such as nearline applications. This MTBF rating is based on a sample population and is estimated by statistical measurements and acceleration algorithms under nominal operating conditions. MTBF ratings are not intended to predict an individual drive’s reliability. MTBF does not constitute a warranty.
2 One GB is equal to one billion bytes and one TB equals 1,000GB (one trillion bytes) when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity will vary from the stated capacity due to formatting and partitioning of the hard drive, the computer’s operating system, and other factors.
3 Portion of buffer capacity used for firmware.
4 Excludes command overhead

Highlights
• Up to 3 terabytes of capacity
• 45% lower power consumption than our Ultrastar 7K3000
• 6Gb/s SATA interface
• Dual Stage Actuator (DSA) and Enhanced Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) for robust performance in multi-drive environments
• 24x7 accessibility for enterprise-class, capacity-optimized applications
• 2.0 million hours MTBF
• 5-year limited warranty

Applications / Environments
• Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL)
• Disk-to-disk backup
• Data warehousing
• Cloud storage
• Massive Scale Out (MSO)

Technical Library Content
Product Documentation

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