• Second generation of the first 2.5-inch, mainstream capacity, 15mm

z-height, nearline enterprise drive for space-constrained data centers

• Choose 6Gb/s SAS for data integrity, scalability and fast data access,

or SATA 6Gb/s for fast, economical Tier 2/nearline performance.

• The industry’s highest-reliability 7200-RPM drive, designed for 24×7

operation with MTBF of 1.4M hours and AFR of 0.62%

• Enterprise-class firmware features and best-in-class rotational vibration

tolerance maximize system availability and performance.

• Lowest operating power (under 6.4W) and enhanced PowerChoice™

options for additional power savings during slow or idle periods;

Workload Management™ technology helps systems keep drives cool.

• Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option (AES-256) cuts IT drive retirement

costs while securely protecting data where it lives—on the drive.1

• FIPS 140-2 Validated™ drives protect Sensitive but Unclassified and

Protected class data.1,2

Best-Fit Applications

• Storage-hungry business applications

• Storage area networks (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS)

• Maximum-capacity servers and blade servers

• Rich media content storage

• Enterprise backup and restore—D2D, virtual tape

• Cloud computing