User Manual

Constellation
®
2.5-inch Tier 2/nearline drive
with the lowest enterprise power usage
Data Sheet
500GB and 160GB
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7200 RPM
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SAS 6Gb/s,
SAS 3Gb/s, SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s
Key Advantages
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First 2.5-inch, 15mm nearline drive for space-constrained data centers
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Lowest operating power and enhanced PowerChoice™ power options for
unprecedented power savings (up to 54%—as low as 1.1W) during idle
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The highest-reliability 7200-RPM drive, designed for 24x7 operation
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Best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance ensures unrivalled performance
in high spindle-density applications, and multi-drive firmware maximizes
system availability.
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SAS offers seamless Tier 2 enterprise experience, with improved data
integrity. SAS 2.0 enables faster data access and larger topologies,
increasing system scalability, data throughput and connectivity.
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Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option cuts IT drive retirement expenses while
securely protecting data
1
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FIPS Self-Encrypting Drive option provides all the benefits of SED and
is NIST certified to meet U.S., Canada and U.K. federal data encryption
compliance requirements.
1, 2
Best-Fit Applications
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Storage-hungry business applications
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Storage area networks (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS)
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Government-grade, data-at-rest security when drives leave your control
1, 2
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Rich media content storage—audio, video, image
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Drive retirement cost reduction and drive life extension strategies
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Reference and compliance data storage
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Enterprise backup and restore
1 Self-Encrypting Drive and FIPS Self-Encrypting Drive options on SAS models.
Requires TCG-compliant host or controller support. Not available in all countries.
2 See FIPS 140-2 Level 2 Certificate at
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/1401vend.htm.
Unified
™
Storage
™
FIPS 140-2 INSIDE