HGST 7K3000 3TB HUA723030ALA640 Data Sheet

Ultrastar

™

 7K3000

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2.0 million hours MTBF

1

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Up to 3 terabytes

2

 of capacity

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SATA 6Gb/s and SAS 6Gb/s models for 

configuration flexibility 

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Dual Stage Actuator (DSA) and Enhanced 

Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) for 

robust performance in multi-drive  

environments

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24x7 accessibility for enterprise-class, 

capacity-optimized applications 

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5-year limited warranty 

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Cloud storage

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Massive Scale Out (MSO)

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Data warehousing & mining

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Disk-to-disk backup & archiving

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RAID arrays

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Network Attached Storage (NAS)

The HGST Ultrastar™ 7K3000 is the world’s first and only 7200 RPM hard drive rated at

2.0 million hours MTBF and backed by a five-year limited warranty. The Ultrastar 7K3000

represents the fifth-generation HGST 5-platter mechanical design, first introduced in 2004,

and has been field proven by top server and storage OEMs as well as leading Internet giants.

When the highest quality and reliability are a top requirement, customer field data proves

that the Ultrastar 7K3000 delivers by reducing downtime, eliminating service calls and

keeping TCO to a minimum. Engineered for the highest reliability, the Ultrastar 7K3000 is

not only put through grueling design tests during development but must also pass stringent

ongoing reliability testing during manufacturing. Across the entire Ultrastar family,

world-class quality control, combined with scientific root-cause analysis and multi-faceted

corrective actions, ensure that HGST remains the recognized leader in quality and reliability

for enterprise-class hard drives.

Recent measures such as data de-duplication and thin provisioning have not been able to

stem the explosive petabyte (PB) growth requirements in cloud storage and data centers.

Pervasive Internet computing with remotely stored email, pictures and social media, all

being accessed from light-weight tablet and notebook computers, is changing consumer

expectations. Ongoing worldwide government data retention regulations and security

requirements are also driving up data center and private cloud storage needs. At the same

time, tile space and megawatts remain at a premium, while in some highly built-out

metropolitan areas both are at an absolute “no-growth” state. To meet these demands, the

Ultrastar 7K3000 delivers 50% more capacity in the same footprint and does so at a 32%

reduction in watts/GB versus our prior generation Ultrastar A7K2000 product. It is now

possible to achieve a colossal 1.8 PB in the footprint of a standard 19-inch enterprise storage

rack by stacking ten 4U, 60-bay enclosures.

The HGST Ultrastar 7K3000 is the first HGST 7200 RPM drive available in both 6Gb/s SATA

and 6Gb/s SAS interfaces and also available in two encryption options. The Ultrastar 7K3000

SATA model integrates easily with legacy SATA and Fibre Channel to SATA environments.

The Ultrastar 7K3000 SATA model is available with a bulk data encryption (BDE) option.

The Ultrastar 7K3000 dual-port SAS model is targeted at emerging 6Gb/s SAS enterprise

infrastructure and is available with industry standard TCG Enterprise_A encryption. When

enabled, both of these hardware-based implementations encrypt all data on the drive using

a private security key as it is written to the disk, and then decrypt it with the key as it is

retrieved, giving users an extreme level of data protection. These security options not only

protect sensitive data but also reduce the time and effort involved in re-deploying hard

drives since without the key, the data is unrecoverable.

Operating at 7200 RPM, the HGST Ultrastar 7K3000 offers better overall performance than

slower RPM capacity-oriented drives, and does so at impressively low power consumption

rates. When compared to HGST’s previous generation Ultrastar A7K2000, the 7K3000 is up

to 3 times faster in sustained data transfer rates. The Ultrastar 7K3000 can help data centers

achieve lower AC power and HVAC requirements. With five Advanced Power Management

modes, the Ultrastar 7K3000 achieves a 59% reduction in watts during low RPM idle mode,

and uses less than 1W during standby/sleep modes, freeing up precious headroom for

growing enterprise needs.

3TB, 2TB | 7200 RPM  

SATA 6Gb/s & SAS 6Gb/s