WD Ultrastar DC HC310

Hard drives with medium capacity

The Ultrastar DC HC300 series delivers cost-effective hard drives with low to medium capacity, ensuring fast and reliable data access in conventional data center applications.

Cost considerations and fast data access are the main criteria for selecting HDDs for data centers. IT managers must create storage tiers within specialized solutions for on-premises, off-premises, and cloud storage. Helium-filled drives offer the highest storage capacities, while air-filled storage media provide other equally significant advantages. With lower acquisition costs, the possibility of using models that have been on the market for a longer time, and higher access density, they are the ideal choice to achieve the desired performance level while staying within budget.

The Ultrastar DC HC300 series meets today’s data center requirements with storage capacities ranging from 4 to 10 TB and higher performance than previous generations. The product line’s drives are suitable for various applications, such as conventional storage arrays, rack-mounted storage enclosures, server-based distributed storage systems, distributed and scalable computing infrastructures, as well as block and file storage architectures. They are offered with 7,200 RPM and SATA (6 Gbit/s) or SAS interface (12 Gbit/s), as well as Advanced Format 4Kn and 512e. The 4 TB models are also available in a 512n version to support older systems with a native block size of 512 bytes.

Technological innovation enhances the efficiency and performance of older conventional systems. The Ultrastar DC HC300 series is based on a proven and cost-effective 3.5-inch model platform with air filling and Conventional Magnetic Recording.