User Manual

Data Sheet
Design Small and Deliver BIG—2.5-Inch,
Eco-Friendly Nearline Drive
Constellation.2
™
Key Advantages
• Secondgenerationoftherst2.5-inch,mainstreamcapacity,15mm
z-height,nearlineenterprisedriveforspace-constraineddatacenters
• Choose6Gb/sSASfordataintegrity,scalabilityandfastdataaccess,
orSATA6Gb/sforfast,economicalTier2/nearlineperformance.
• Theindustry’shighest-reliability7200-RPMdrive,designedfor24×7
operationwithMTBFof1.4MhoursandAFRof0.62%
• Enterprise-classrmwarefeaturesandbest-in-classrotationalvibration
tolerancemaximizesystemavailabilityandperformance.
• Lowestoperatingpower(under6.4W)andenhancedPowerChoice
™

optionsforadditionalpowersavingsduringsloworidleperiods;
WorkloadManagement
™
technologyhelpssystemskeepdrivescool.
• Self-EncryptingDrive(SED)option(AES-256)cutsITdriveretirement
costswhilesecurelyprotectingdatawhereitlives—onthedrive.
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• FIPS140-2Validated
™
drivesprotectSensitive but Unclassifiedand
Protectedclassdata.
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Best-Fit Applications
• Storage-hungrybusinessapplications
• Storageareanetworks(SAN)andnetworkattachedstorage(NAS)
• Maximum-capacityserversandbladeservers
• Richmediacontentstorage
• Enterprisebackupandrestore—D2D,virtualtape
• Cloudcomputing
1Self-EncryptingDrives(SED)andFIPS140-2Validateddrivesarenotavailable
inallmodelsorcountries.MayrequireTCG-complianthostorcontrollersupport.
2SeeFIPS140-2Level2Certicateathttp://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/
documents/140-1/1401val2011.htm#1635