As the industry evolves to develop purpose-built solutions for growing data storage requirements, IT managers continue to rely on mid-range capacity drives that are economical to acquire, yet deliver quick and reliable data access for traditional data center applications. Designed to handle workloads up to 550TB per year, the Ultrastar DC HC300 series is a proven air-platform design that delivers up to 8TB of capacity to help address the economic and access-density requirements of many data center workloads. Ideal for storage and server applications, as well as distributed and scalable computing (including block and file storage architectures), the Ultrastar DC HC300 series provides fast 7,200 RPM performance and lower acquisition cost to help ease budget constraints. Cloud applications and distributed file systems like Apache Hadoop® to support Big Data analytics Bulk storage using Object storage solutions like Ceph™ and OpenStack Swift Direct & Network Attached Storage (DAS & NAS), RAID storage Industrial or Surveillance Applications Entry Server Storage Up to 8TB capacity supports traditional IT systems Excellent random and sequential performance Sustained transfer rate up to 255 MB/s for Advanced Format models Choice of 12 Gb/s SAS or 6 Gb/s SATA Self-Encrypting options (TCG/FIPS available on SAS models) 5-year limited warranty