Hitachi Ultrastar DC HH360 6TB 7200RPM SAS 12Gb/s 3.5-inch CMR

The Hitachi Ultrastar DC HH360 6TB (HUS726060AL5214) is a 3.5-inch enterprise-class hard disk drive engineered for demanding datacenter environments. Built on Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) technology and spinning at 7,200 RPM, it delivers consistent sequential and random I/O performance suited to mixed read/write enterprise workloads. The SAS 12Gb/s dual-port interface provides high-bandwidth connectivity with full backward compatibility to SAS 6Gb/s infrastructure, while the dual-port architecture supports high-availability configurations commonly required in enterprise storage arrays.

The HH360 series targets workloads that demand sustained throughput and reliability across extended operational cycles. With a rated workload of up to 550TB per year and an annualized failure rate (AFR) specification designed for enterprise duty cycles, the drive is positioned for deployment in scale-out NAS, RAID arrays, and tiered storage platforms. The 128MB cache buffer supports efficient staging of sequential and random data patterns, and the drive incorporates Rotational Vibration (RV) sensors to maintain performance integrity in high-density, multi-drive enclosures where mechanical vibration from adjacent drives would otherwise degrade positioning accuracy.

Hitachi Vantara's Ultrastar DC HH360 platform is validated for integration into enterprise storage systems serving AI and analytics data pipelines, backup and archival repositories, content repositories, and cloud storage infrastructure. The SAS 12Gb/s interface, combined with the drive's power efficiency profile at the 6TB capacity point, makes it a practical choice for organizations balancing capacity density, random access performance, and operational energy budgets in rack-mounted storage environments across datacenter deployments in the UAE, GCC, EMEA, and APAC regions.

Ideal for

• Scale-out enterprise NAS and SAN arrays requiring high-capacity CMR drives with dual-port SAS redundancy
• AI and machine learning data lake storage tiers where large sequential read throughput supports model training dataset ingestion
• Backup and disaster recovery appliances demanding sustained write throughput and high annual workload ratings
• Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) secondary storage tiers balancing capacity density with consistent random I/O performance
• Surveillance and media content repositories requiring high sustained transfer rates and continuous write endurance
• Cloud and colocation datacenter object storage nodes where dual-port SAS fabric connectivity and vibration compensation support dense multi-drive deployment

Technical specifications

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