Seagate 3.5" 12TB Enterprise Capacity (Exos) SAS 12Gb/s, 7.2K RPM, 256M, 512e, Helium

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Seagate 3.5" 12TB Enterprise Capacity (Exos) SAS 12Gb/s, 7.2K RPM, 256M, 512e, Helium
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Seagate 3.5 HDD (Helium) The 12TB Enterprise Capacity 7200 rpm SAS III 3.5" Internal HDD from Seagate is a high performance, large capacity drive designed for data storage. It's suitable for engineering workstations, network servers, mainframes, supercomputers, and other demanding tasks that require 24/7 operation. This 7200 rpm drive has a 512e format and utilizes the SAS III 12 Gb/s interface for data transfer rates of up to 261 MB/s. Moreover, as a professional-grade drive, it has a MTBF rating of 2.5 million hours as well as built-in digital sensors to ensure optimal performance.

Maximum Storage Capacity for Highest Rack Space Efficiency

  • Hyperscale SAS model tuned for large data transfers
  • PowerBalance feature optimizes IOPS/Watt
  • Advanced Write Caching feature enables up to 20% performance improvement in random write performance
  • Forged, wrought-aluminum base and a helium sealed-drive design with no porosity and uniform density
  • Built-in digital environmental sensors for measuring internal humidity, pressure, and temperature to ensure reliability, performance, and quality
  • 2.5 million hours MTBF

Best-Fit Applications

  • Hyperscale applications/cloud data centers with replicated storage
  • Massive scale-out data centers and big data analytics
  • OLTP and HPC applications
  • High-capacity density RAID storage
  • Mainstream enterprise external storage arrays (SAN, NAS, DAS)
  • Distributed file systems, including Hadoop and Ceph
  • Enterprise backup and restore - D2D, virtual tape
  • Centralized surveillance

Features Humidity Sensor Yes Protection Information (T10 DIF) Yes Super Parity Yes Low Halogen Yes PowerChoice Technology Yes PowerBalance Technology Yes Cache, Multisegmented 256 MB Reliability/Data Integrity Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) 2.5 million hours Reliability Rating at Full 24x7 Operation (AFR) 0.35% Non-Recoverable Read Errors per Bits Read 1 sector per 1015 Power-On Hours per Year 8760 (24x7) Bytes per Sector 512, 520, 528 Performance Capacity 12 TB Spin Speed 7200 rpm Interface Access Speed 12, 6, and 3 Gb/s Format 512e Max Sustainable Transfer Rate Up to 261 MB/s Random Read 4K QD16 WCD (IOPS): 170 Random Write 4K QD16 WCD (IOPS): 400 Average Latency 4.16 ms Interface Ports Dual Rotational Vibration @ 1500 Hz 12.5 rad/s2 Power Consumption Idle Average 5.5 W Average Operating Power 9.3 W Power Supply Requirements +12 and +5 V