Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC550 (16TB 3.5-inch Helium Platform Enterprise Hard Drive

Manufacturer Model Number: WUH721816ALE6L4
Manufacturer Part Number: 0F38462

Warranty: 5 Years Limited  Manufacturer Warranty

Highlights

• 16TB capacity in a standard 3.5-inch form factor
• Industry’s first Energy-Assisted Magnetic Recording technology
• Industry’s first Triple Stage Actuator
• Leading HelioSeal technology
• Reliable, field-proven design across five generations
• HelioSeal design delivers power efficiency (Watts/TB)
• 2.5M hours MTBF rating and a 5-year limited warranty

Workloads

• Cloud & 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 Apache Hadoop® for Big Data Analytics
• Surveillance Analytics

Specifications:

Interface SATA 6Gb/s

Capacity (GB) 16TB

Sector size (variable, Bytes/sector) 512e

Max Areal Density (Gbits/sq. in.) 918

Form Factor 3.5-inch HDD

Data Buffer (MB) 512

Rotational Speed (RPM) 7200

Latency Average (ms) 4.16

Interface transfer rate (MB/sec, max) 600

SE =  Secure Erase (Overwrite Only)

Dimensions (width x depth, mm)  101.6 (+/-0.25) x 147

Weight (g, max) 690