Ultrastar C15K600

600GB, 450GB & 300GB

Overview

HGST delivers the worlds fastest hard disk drive in the Ultrastar C15K600, a 15K RPM, 2.5-inch small form factor hard drive ideally suited for mission-critical data center and high performance computing environments. At 600GB, Ultrastar C15K600 provides double the capacity of current generation 2.5-inch 15K drives, and matches the highest capacity point of 3.5-inch 15K drives. This latest addition to the Ultrastar small form factor (SFF) family outperforms not only the competition but also legacy 3.5-inch 15K drives from HGST, achieving more than 38% faster sequential and 2.5X faster random write performance for faster data processing while consuming less than half as much active and idle power.

Ultrastar C15K600 leverages an industry-leading 12Gb/s SAS interface and offers the broadest range of security and encryption options available on enterprise-class hard drives, including Instant Secure Erase (ISE), Trusted computing Group (TCG) enterprise SSC-compliant Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) and TCG enterprise SED with FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 certification, level 2.

Specifications

Capacity: One MB is equal to one million bytes, one GB is equal to one billion bytes and one TB equals 1,000GB (one trillion bytes) when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity will vary from the stated capacity due to formatting and partitioning of the hard drive, the computers operating system, and other factors.

Data Buffer: Portion of buffer capacity used for drive firmware
 

Seek Time: Excludes command overhead
 

Transfer Rate: MB is equal to Million Bytes; Sustained rate is shown from Outer to Inner Diameter
 

MTBF: MTBF target is based on a sample population and is estimated by statistical measurements and acceleration algorithms under median operating conditions. MTBF ratings are not intended to predict an individual drives reliability. MTBF does

not constitute a warranty.
 

Operating Power: calculated based on a Random RW 4KB workload at Queue Depth of 1
 

Idle: Based on use of Idle_A power mode.

Model number values: x=0 (Instant Secure Erase), x=1 (TCG SED), x=4 (Secure Erase), x=5 (FIPS 140-2 certified TCG-SED)