Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC580 22TB SATA Enterprise HDD

The Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC580 is a 22TB 3.5-inch nearline SATA hard disk drive engineered for high-density enterprise storage environments. Built on Western Digital's ninth-generation HelioSeal platform, the drive uses helium-sealed enclosure technology combined with energy-assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) to achieve its 22TB capacity across ten magnetic platters. The HC580 operates at 7,200 RPM and connects via a 6 Gb/s SATA interface, delivering sustained transfer rates suited to sequential read/write workloads at scale. A 512MB DRAM cache buffer supports throughput consistency during demanding I/O operations.

Designed for 24/7 continuous operation, the Ultrastar DC HC580 is rated for an annualized workload of 550TB per year and carries a mean time between failures (MTBF) rating of 2.5 million hours. Power management features include Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS), which uses integrated sensors to detect and compensate for rotational vibration in high-density multi-drive enclosures—a common challenge in rack-scale deployments. The drive supports both 512e and 4Kn logical sector sizes, offering compatibility with modern enterprise operating environments while supporting legacy configurations where required.

The HC580 22TB targets hyperscale data centers, cloud infrastructure operators, and enterprise storage administrators seeking to maximize usable capacity per rack unit without sacrificing reliability or data integrity. Its balance of aerial density, per-drive capacity, and power efficiency makes it a strong fit for bulk object storage, backup repositories, cold archival tiers, and large-scale media content repositories where cost-per-terabyte efficiency and predictable endurance are primary selection criteria.

Ideal for

• Hyperscale and cloud object storage platforms requiring maximum raw capacity per rack unit
• Enterprise backup and recovery target storage with high sequential write throughput demands
• Cold and warm archival data tiers in tiered storage architectures
• Large-scale NAS deployments for unstructured data including video, imagery, and genomics datasets
• Distributed file system nodes (e.g., Ceph, HDFS) in big data analytics infrastructure
• Surveillance and media asset management systems requiring dense, always-on sequential storage

Technical specifications

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