As the industry evolves to develop purpose-built solutions for growing data storage requirements, IT managers continue to rely on lower capacity drives that are economical to acquire, yet deliver quick and reliable data access for traditional data center applications. Ultrastar 7K8 is an 8 TB HDD that helps address economic and access requirements of many traditional IT workloads. Lower capacity drives also help address architecture limitations. The Ultrastar 7K8 is designed for traditional storage and server applications as well as distributed and scalable computing, including block and file storage architectures, providing fast 7200 RPM performance and lower acquisition cost to help ease budget constraints. Features Enterprise-class storage to rely on: Ultrastar is the top-end drive for data centres; with up to 2. 5 million hours MTBF, Ultrastar drives deliver reliability and durability within the most demanding storage environments All backed with a 5-year limited warranty High workload rating: Ultrastar hard drives are designed with a workload rating up to 550 TB per year - among the highest of any 3. 5 Inch hard drive Workload rate is defined as the amount of user data transferred to or from the hard drive and will vary depending on your hardware and software components and configurations Helio Seal technology: Featured in over 30 million Western Digital hard drives shipped, Helio Seal technology allows for higher capacities and lower power on large storage arrays; as of July 2018 Helio Seal technology is field-tested and proven to deliver high capacity, reliability and power efficiency you can trust; available on 10 TB capacities and above Compatibility testing: All Ultrastar hard drives are extensively tested across a variety of popular OEM storage systems, SATA controllers and host bus adapters to ensure ease of integration for a plug and play solution