HGST delivers the world’s fastest hard disk drive in the Ultrastar® C15K600, a 15K RPM, 2.5-inch small form factor hard drive ideally suited for mission-critical data center and high performance computing environments. At 600GB, Ultrastar C15K600 provides double the capacity of current generation 2.5-inch 15K drives, and matches the highest capacity point of 3.5-inch 15K drives. This latest addition to the Ultrastar small form factor (SFF) family outperforms not only the competition but also legacy 3.5-inch 15K drives from HGST, achieving more than 38% faster sequential and 2.5X faster random write performance for faster data processing while consuming less than half as much active and idle power.
Ultrastar C15K600 leverages an industry-leading 12Gb/s SAS interface and offers the broadest range of security and encryption options available on enterprise-class hard drives, including Instant Secure Erase (ISE), Trusted computing Group (TCG) enterprise SSC-compliant Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) and TCG enterprise SED with FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 certification, level 2.
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Interface : SAS 12Gb/s
Capacity (GB) : 600GB / 450GB / 300GB
Sector size (variable, Bytes/sector) : 4096-Byte (512e, 4Kn)
Recording zones : 40
Data Heads (physical) : 6 / 4 / 3
Data Disks : 3 / 2 / 2
Max Areal Density (Gbits/sq. in.) : 460
Performance
Data Buffer (MB) : 128
Rotational Speed (RPM) : 15030
Latency Average (ms) : <2.0
Interface transfer rate (MB/sec, max) : 1200
Sustained transfer rate (MB/sec, typ.) : 189 to 271
Seek Time (read, ms, typical) : 2.9 / 3.1
Reliability
Error Rate (non-recoverable, bits read) : 10 in 10^17
MTBF (M hours) : 2
Acoustics
Idle (Bels) : 3.2
Power
Requirement : +5 VDC (+/-5%), +12 VDC (+/-5%)
Operating (W, typical) : 7.5 / 7.0 / 7.0
Active Idle (W, avg) : 5.8 / 5.1 / 5.0
Power consump. efficiency index (W/GB) : 0.0096 / 0.0113 / 0.0168
Physical size
Z-Height (mm) : 14.8
Dimensions (width x depth, mm) : 70.1 x 100.45
Weight (g, max) : 219
Environmental (operating)
Ambient temperature : 5º to 55º C
Case Temperature : -
Shock (half-sine wave) : 60G
Vibration (5 to 700 Hz) : 0.4, all axes
Environmental (non-operating)
Ambient temperature : -40º to 70º C
Shock (half-sine wave) : >300G
Vibration (5 to 500 Hz) : 1.5G, all axes