Western Digital launches its new HGST Ultrastar Hs14 14TB hard drive for the enterprise market

Western Digital has announced its new hard drive under its HGST brand, Ultrastar Hs14 14TB, has already been released. This new hard disk is based on helium sealing that offers 40% more storage capacity than its predecessor and doubles the sequential writing speed.

Ultrastar Hs14, Western Digital launches its new HGST Ultrastar Hs14 14TB hard drive for the enterprise market,

As a business solution, it offers an estimated life of 2.5 million hours and a 5-year warranty. It will offer both SATA interface and SAS interface and in the technical section, it has a cache of 512MB and a rotation speed of 7200 RPM, achieving sustained transfer speeds up to 223MB / s.

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This type of hard drives, although they mean nothing to the domestic market if they represent advantages for the professional market, where fewer disks installed in the servers can obtain greater capabilities. This means that fewer disks need to be installed for the same capacity by lowering total server consumption. Or installing larger drives to increase overall capacity over their predecessors.

WD Ultrastar Hs14 14TB

This new WD Ultrastar Hs14 is focused on enterprise customers looking to have data centers operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Therefore, the company claims that its new disc has an average of 2.5 million hours without fail.

The disk comes with SATA (6 Gbps) and SAS (12 Gbps) interface. And offers theoretical transfer speeds up to 240 MB/s, 512MB buffer and a 5-year warranty.

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The attractive point here is the HelioSeal technology. That changes the interior air by helium, thus offering a lower energy consumption and greater durability by reducing turbulence damage. In addition, incorporates SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) technology. That allows to increase the capacity and reduce the energy consumption in up to 60%

WD has not reported the price of this Ultrastar Hs14 but is estimated to be between $ 650. The new WD disc can be acquired from today as long as they are within the business market.