Using Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) technology with a 6 Gb/s SATA III interface, the budget-friendly 10TB Ultrastar DC HC330 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal Data Center HDD makes it easy to expand the capacity of your data center and other enterprise systems. With 256MB of cache, this 3.5" 7200 rpm hard drive is designed to deliver sustained transfer speeds of up to 273 MB/s, making it ideal for storage arrays, rack mounted enclosures, and servers.

Your data is protected with Secure Erase (SE) technology. This drive also has a 2 million hour mean time before failure (MTBF) with an Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of 0.44%.

10TB Storage Capacity    3.5" Form Factor    SATA III Interface    256MB Cache    7200 rpm    Data Transfer Speeds up to 273 MB/s    2.5 Million Hours MTBF    CMR Technology    Secure Erase (SE) Security

Data center features such as a second generation dual-stage actuator enhances head-positioning accuracy to deliver better performance.

Secure Erase (SE) technology is offered without user-data encryption and is designed to effectively wipe data from all areas of the drive.

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. What is the difference between this drive and the WD Gold 22TB?

A: The WD gold and Ultrastar are very similar drives but the Ultra star has SAS options as well as sector size options the WD gold does not offer.

Q: 2. Where are these WD HDDs made?

A: The WD 16TB UltraStar DC HC550 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal HDD (OEM), B&H # WE16TBSATHDD, is made in Thailand.

Q: 3. I’m a professional photographer and all of my images are stored via these large drives. My operating system is on a ssd, and when I first bring images in they are processed on my ssd drive. But one I store them, they are still accessed by my software (Lightroom and other Adobe products), and often I’m still retrieving, searching for and editing the images long after they were moved off my ssd drive. This drive will be wired directly into my mother board and PC that has 4 storage drives. What are the pros of the following two drives and cons for my situation. Which would you recommend? Thank you.

A: SSDs should be used for your applications and OS. The hard drives should be used for storing and retrieving your data files.

Q: 4. I'm thinking of getting this along with a hard drive enclosure so it can be used as an external drive. Are there any downsides to using the drive in this manner? Thanks.

A: No, this device would be fully compatible in this manner.

Q: 5. Are these drives warrantied in Canada?

A: No. This WD 18TB UltraStar DC HC550 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal HDD, would have a 5 year manufacturers USA warranty.

Q: 6. Is this drive compatible with a Synology 1515+? Its not listed on the Synology compatibility web site.

A: You can use a drive not listed in the compatibility chart, but you are not guaranteed optimal results.

Q: 7. Will this WD 22TB Ultrastar 7200 rpm SATA 3.5" Drive (BH #WE0F48155) work with a CRU enclosure and a Mac Pro desktop computer?

A: Yes, the WD 22TB Ultrastar 7200 rpm SATA 3.5" Internal Data Center HDD (OEM Packaging) can be used in a 3.5" SATA III compatible CRU enclosure with a Mac Pro.

Q: 8. Is this drive CMR or SMR?

A: WD 18TB UltraStar DC HC550 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal HDD is a CMR drive.

Q: 9. Is the 16TB drive (0F38462) CMR or SMR?

A: The 16TB UltraStar DC HC550 is a CMR type drive.

Q: 10. Is this drive compatible with Synology 418Play?

A: The WD 16TB UltraStar DC HC550 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal HDD BH #WE16TBSATHDD is compatible with a Synology 418Play.