The 18TB UltraStar DC HC550 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal HDD from WD is a high-performance, large-capacity drive designed for enterprise environments that have intensive data and storage needs. This drive has a storage capacity of 18TB and a 3.5" form factor with a SATA III 6 Gb/s interface, rotational speed of 7200 rpm, and 512MB cache that help to ensure uninterrupted data transfers at speeds of up 269 MB/s. As a professional-grade drive, it has an MTBF rating of 2.5 million hours, an Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of 0.35%, 600,000 load/unload cycles, an error rate of 1 in 1015 non-recoverable bits read, and a workload of up to 550TB per year, plus WD's HelioSeal technology, which replaces the air inside the drive with helium. This allows for increased efficiency, reliability, and capacity, thanks to reduced vibration, improved areal density, cooler operating temperatures, and reduced power requirements.
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WD 18TB UltraStar DC HC550 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal HDD (OEM)
Key Features
- 18TB Storage Capacity
- 3.5" Form Factor
- SATA III 6 Gb/s Interface
- 512MB Cache
The 18TB UltraStar DC HC550 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal HDD from WD is a high-performance, large-capacity drive designed for enterprise environments that have intensive data and storage needs. This drive has a storage capacity of 18TB and a 3.5" form factor with a SATA III 6 Gb/s interface, rotational speed of 7200 rpm, and 512MB cache that help to ensure uninterrupted data transfers at speeds of up 269 MB/s. As a professional-grade drive, it has an MTBF rating of 2.5 million hours, an Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of 0.35%, 600,000 load/unload cycles, an error rate of 1 in 1015 non-recoverable bits read, and a workload of up to 550TB per year, plus WD's HelioSeal technology, which replaces the air inside the drive with helium. This allows for increased efficiency, reliability, and capacity, thanks to reduced vibration, improved areal density, cooler operating temperatures, and reduced power requirements.
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WD HC550 Internal HDD Overview
- 1Description
- 2General Features
- 3Highlights
- 4Applications and Environments
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General Features
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Drives the Data Center Architecture
Data center decisions are driven by TCO. Higher capacity hard drives play a role in reducing TCO. An 18TB data center HDD provides 29% more capacity than a 14TB HDD in the same form factor. Higher capacity HDDs enable data centers to lower CapEx by reducing hardware- and system-level costs when compared to lower capacity drives. Helium-sealed, low power, high-reliability drives reduce energy and maintenance costs, contributing to OpEx savings. For example, a data center using 18TB HDDs vs. 14TB HDDs requires 22% fewer racks while consuming 21% less power per TB at idle.
Raising the Bar with Advanced Technologies
The Ultrastar DC HC550 integrates a suite of technologies on a 9-disk platform to create a new class of HDDs. Its 18TB capacity is achieved by combining technologies that improve areal density with technologies that improve performance and reduce power consumption. It uses Energy-Assisted Magnetic Recording (EAMR) technology to improve writability and increase areal density, while a Triple Stage Actuator (TSA) enhances head-positioning accuracy, delivering better performance and increased areal density. Lastly, this drive uses HelioSeal technology, which is now in its 6th generation.
Trusted Reliability and Quality for Data at Scale
With its massive capacity and 2.5 million hour MTBF reliability rating, the UltraStar DC HC550 is made for object storage implementations. Object storage systems with erasure coding provide better data durability compared to RAID systems, given their tolerance for simultaneous error conditions. The DC HC550 offers security and encryption options to help protect data from unauthorized use, including SED models in both SATA and SAS. A SED-FIPS will be available in SAS configuration.
Highlights
18TB in a standard 3.5" form factor
CMR technology works with all capacity enterprise applications and environments
Reliable, field-proven, 6th generation design
Energy-Assisted Magnetic Recording technology
Triple Stage Actuator
HelioSeal design delivers outstanding power efficiency
2.5 million hours MTBF rating and a limited 5-year warranty
Self-encrypting drive options
Applications and Environments
Cloud and hyperscale storage
Massive scale-out (MSO) and 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
UPC: 829686006720
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WD HC550 Internal HDD Reviews
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I'm thinking of getting this along with a hard ...
I'm thinking of getting this along with a hard drive enclosure so it can be used as an external drive. Are there any downsides to using the drive in this manner? Thanks.
No, this device would be fully compatible in this manner.
Date published: 2021-03-16
Is this drive compatible with a Synology 1515+? ...
Is this drive compatible with a Synology 1515+? Its not listed on the Synology compatibility web site.
The drive is with SATA 3 and posology 1515+ interface is SATA ll. SATA 3 drives are backwards compatible with SATA 2 ports. hence Synology 1515+ should support this drive
Date published: 2022-02-15
What is the warranty of this?
What is the warranty of this?
This drive comes with a 5 year warranty from WD.
Date published: 2021-04-24
Would this 18 TB drive be suitable for use as a ...
Would this 18 TB drive be suitable for use as a 2nd hard drive in a PC with Windows 10?
Yes. It works absolutely fine as a desktop PC hard drive.
Date published: 2022-12-18
I’m a professional photographer and all of my ...
I’m a professional photographer and all of my images are stored via these large drives. My operating system is on a ssd, and when I first bring images in they are processed on my ssd drive. But one I store them, they are still accessed by my software (Lightroom and other Adobe products), and often I’m still retrieving, searching for and editing the images long after they were moved off my ssd drive. This drive will be wired directly into my mother board and PC that has 4 storage drives. What are the pros of the following two drives and cons for my situation. Which would you recommend? Thank you.
SSDs should be used for your applications and OS.
The hard drives should be used for storing and retrieving your data files.
Date published: 2021-03-18
Video files particularly RAW video files are huge ...
Video files particularly RAW video files are huge and result in the need to store terabytes of video files which need to be accessible for editing. Would this 18 TB drive be suitable for use in a Windows 10 PC or is there a problem or disadvantage to using this drive as a secondary hard drive in a PC?
Make sure to have a backup of your data on at least 2 devices, ideally on "parity drives".
Date published: 2021-07-16
Are these drives warrantied in Canada?
Are these drives warrantied in Canada?
No. This WD 18TB UltraStar DC HC550 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal HDD, would have a 5 year manufacturers USA warranty.
Date published: 2021-11-02
Is this drive CMR or SMR?
Is this drive CMR or SMR?
WD 18TB UltraStar DC HC550 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal HDD is a CMR drive.
Date published: 2021-03-11