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Hey folks,

Eyeing up the following ...

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22TB Western Digital Ultrastar HC570 SATA Hard Drive, 3.5" HDD, SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm, 512MB Cache, 512E/4096N, OEM

Product Overview
22TB to Fuel Data Center Expansion
The explosive growth of data from AI/ML, 5G networks, IoT, connected vehicles, and more is fuelling growth in data centers. HDD innovation drives the ability to capture, store, analyse, and protect much of this data. Higher-capacity HDDs deliver higher data density, enabling data center expansion and efficiency.

The Ultrastar DC HC570 22TB data center HDD with OptiNAND™ technology is the next leap in data density. This 22TB data center HDD enables an incredible 22.44PB of raw storage in a typical rack. This higher volumetric density allows data centers to maximize their storage, especially in footprint- and power-constrained environments.

The Ultrastar DC HC570 combines several industry-first technologies on a 10-disk CMR drive, delivering the performance, quality, and reliability that data center customers require.


Low Power for Lower Operating Costs
Ultrastar HDDs are designed for optimal power over a variety of workloads. The DC HC570 features low power sequential read/write and mixed random read/write workloads.


OptiNAND Technology Benefits
The Ultrastar DC HC570 is the 2nd-generation platform with OptiNAND technology, which integrates an iNAND® Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Embedded Flash Drive (EFD) with traditional spinning disk media.

Western Digital's 2.2TB/disk areal density leadership is extended to a new 10-disk platform, delivering 22TB capacity with CMR recording format. More disks and high areal density work together to maximize data storage efficiency.

OptiNAND improves drive resiliency in the event of an emergency power off (EPO) by increasing the amount of non-volatile memory (NVM) available to flush critical metadata to the iNAND.

ArmorCache™ is a feature enabled by OptiNAND that combines the performance of write cache enabled (WCE) mode and the data protection of write cache disabled (WCD) mode, offering the best of both scenarios. When operating in WCE mode, ArmorCache ensures that the DRAM cache will be safely written in event of an EPO and no data is lost. When operating in WCD mode, the drive will ensure that all user data in DRAM is safely written upon EPO, and the drive will operate with WCE-equivalent performance. Performance and data protection are now identical across both WCE and WCD modes.



Trusted Reliability and Quality for Data at Scale
The Ultrastar DC HC570 meets modern data center reliability requirements with 2.5M MTBF2 (projected) and a 5-year limited warranty. It is performance-optimized for heavy application workloads and is designed to handle workloads up to 550TB per year. It offers security and encryption options to help protect data from unauthorized use, including SED models.

Trust Western Digital and the Ultrastar DC HC570 hard drive to deliver the highest capacity and greatest value for your data center.

Features

• 22TB capacity in a standard 3.5-inch form factor.
• OptiNAND technology for highest capacities, with ArmorCache™ providing enterprise power loss protection and increased performance.
• Reliable, field-proven, 8th-generation HelioSeal® design.
• Low power for common data center sequential and random read/write workloads.
• Industry-leading HDD technologies: ePMR, triplestage actuator (TSA), HelioSeal.
• 2.5M hours (projected) MTBF rating and 5-year limited warranty.
• Self-encrypting drive options.

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This is to go in my home studio PC to replace a 12TB unit but wanted to ask if this is a "normal" drive and will it work ok and isnt one of those archive style drives that are slow as hell.

The PC it will go in is an OcUK 3950x on an MSI X570 Gaming Edge motherboard.

Thanks folks!

R.
 
It 'should' work fine with any modern sata 6gbps connector, so you should be ok with what you have.

Sata enterprise drives are generally cmr (good for nas/servers), faster due to 7200rpm, and generally built for a 'harder life' but at their core they're still just fundamentally a sata hard drive. The main thing to consider will be noise, it's probably going to be noisier than a consumer due to being 7200rpm and essentially being in environments where being noisy isn't really a concern etc.

Also be careful with warranties, I've seen plenty of reviews on other sites where they've bought the drive and then found the warranty wasn't available, this is usually from some sort of reseller though.
Thank you, thats exactly what I wanted info wise :) Just upgraded my camera system a couple of months back and 8K RAW video is going to be a drive chomper! :)
 
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