{"id":4824,"date":"2020-09-22T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/?p=4824"},"modified":"2026-10-13T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:59:23","slug":"product-overview-wd-ultrastar-data-center-hdds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/product-overview-wd-ultrastar-data-center-hdds\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-up Capacity for Less with Western Digital DC HC500 Series Hard Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need to drive up storage capacity while driving down TCO? Western Digital&#8217;s large-capacity enterprise HDDs are now available up to 18TB. The high-capacity Ultrastar DC HC500 Series HDDs can help solve TCO challenges at where storage density and cost-efficient infrastructure is crucial.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose-built DC HC500 Series product family is based on Energy-Assisted Magnetic Recording for extreme capacity and areal density, and utilize the industry&#8217;s first Triple Stage Actuator. These innovative WD technologies integrate with HelioSeal\u00ae 9-disk platform design to deliver the highest density and unmatched TCO.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/product-overview-wd-ultrastar-data-center-hdds\/#WD_Ultrastar_DC_HC500_Series_Hard_Drives\" >WD Ultrastar DC HC500 Series Hard Drives<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/product-overview-wd-ultrastar-data-center-hdds\/#Leveraging_Western_Digital_HDDs_in_the_Data_Center\" >Leveraging Western Digital HDDs in the Data Center<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"WD_Ultrastar_DC_HC500_Series_Hard_Drives\"><\/span><strong>WD Ultrastar DC HC500 Series Hard Drives<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 3.5&#8243; HDDs can be configured on many Pogo Linux rackmount servers. Scale-up capacity and move a massive amount of data in hyperscale data center or on-prem private cloud environments which require high-capacity, low power consumption and increased data reliability.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#x1f4c8; <strong>Extreme Capacity<\/strong> \u2013 Drop-in up to 18TB SATA 6GB\/s or SAS 12Gb\/s HDDs for Big Data workloads.<\/li>\n<li>&#x1f50b; <strong>Lower Power<\/strong> \u2013 Reduced power consumption from up to 61% lower idle Watts\/TB than 10TB Ultrastar air-filled drives.<\/li>\n<li>&#x2705; <strong>More Reliable<\/strong> \u2013 Raising the bar on reliability with 25% higher mean time between failures (MTBF) than air-filled drives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lGvEV0qdnqk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Leveraging_Western_Digital_HDDs_in_the_Data_Center\"><\/span>Leveraging Western Digital HDDs in the Data Center<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Following the launch of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/product-overview-wd-ultrastar-nvme-ssd\/\">WD Ultrastar DC series NVMe SSDs<\/a> with capacity sizes from 800GB to 20.72TB, Pogo Linux server users will experience low-latency and high-throughput for high-transaction AI and ML applications from fast, dense and efficient NVMe SSD storage. In both single- and dual-processor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/products\/intel-servers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rackmount server configurations<\/a>, data center leaders will be able to accelerate access to critical data \u2013 ideal for AI and ML workloads with read-intense workloads \u2013 from 96-Layer 3D NAND and up to 1.2M random read IOPS.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d be excited to take a deeper dive into how to architect low-latency and high-throughput with NVMe SSD storage at petabyte scale for AI &amp; ML workloads. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/book-meeting\/\">Schedule a time<\/a> or give us a call at <strong>(888) 828-7646<\/strong> to learn how we\u2019ve helped businesses of all sizes with custom hardware configurations and exceptional technical support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/products\/intel-servers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4957 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/blog-article-footer_intel-xeon-servers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need to drive up storage capacity while driving down TCO? Western Digital&#8217;s large-capacity enterprise HDDs are now available up to 18TB. The high-capacity Ultrastar DC HC500 Series HDDs can help solve TCO challenges at where storage density and cost-efficient infrastructure is crucial. 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