The Supermicro certified 8TB 3.5″ SATA3 7200RPM (HUS728T8TAL5204) hard drive offers high capacity and energy efficiency without sacrificing performance for reliable access to bulk storage. Each and every hard drive is validated and Supermicro certified to ensure performance, stability and reliability. This HDD provides a 25% nearline performance boost over competitive offerings to help meet your Service Level Agreements which also helps lower your TCO by providing the highest capacity drive to meet your expansive data growth.

Economics and Access Speed: Key Requirements for Low Capacity HDDs in the Data Center
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. Designed to handle workloads up to 550TB per year, Ultrastar® DC HC320* is an 8TB1 HDD that helps address economic and access requirements of many traditional IT workloads. Low capacity drives also help address architecture limitations. The Ultrastar DC HC320 is designed for traditional storage and server applications as well as distributed and scalable computing, including block and file storage architectures, providing fast 7,200 RPM performance and lower acquisition cost to help ease budget constraints. Ultrastar DC HC320 is offered with either 6Gb/s SATA or 12Gb/s SAS interface in a choice of 512e or 4Kn formats.