Highest capacity and reliability with a proven design

The Hitachi 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 Hitachi 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 Hitachi GST remains the recognized leader in quality and reliability for enterprise-class hard drives.

Highlights
• 2.0 million hours MTBF
• Up to 3 terabytes of capacity
• 6Gb/s SATA and 6Gb/s SAS models for configuration flexibility
• Dual Stage Actuator (DSA) and Enhanced Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) for robust performance in multi-drive ENVIRONMENTS
• 24×7 accessibility for enterprise-class, capacity-optimized applications
• 5-year limited warranty

Applications / ENVIRONMENTS
• Cloud storage
• Massive Scale Out (MSO)
• Decision support & RAID
• Data warehousing & mining
• Disk-to-disk backup & archiving
• RAID arrays
• Network Attached Storage (NAS)

Hitachi p/n: 0F12456 / HUA723030ALA640

Compatibility

This drive is compatible with any system that uses SATA hard drives (up to 2.19TB).  Controllers with Long LBA capabilities will be able to utilize drives larger than 2.19TB.