Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC680 28TB SMR SATA

The Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC680 is a 28TB enterprise-class hard drive engineered for hyperscale and archival storage environments requiring maximum capacity density. Utilizing SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) technology, this drive achieves industry-leading areal density, optimizing TCO for cold storage and sequential workload-heavy deployments across data centers and cloud infrastructure.

Designed for read-intensive archival, backup repositories, and large-scale distributed storage systems, the HC680 delivers sustained performance characteristics suitable for 24/7 operation in optimized data center conditions. The drive integrates native 4Kn sector formatting and enterprise-grade reliability features for demanding hyperscale environments.

Ideal for

• Cloud-scale cold storage and long-term data archival repositories
• Hyperscale data center backup and disaster recovery infrastructure
• Video surveillance and media asset management repositories
• Scientific research data lakes and computational storage systems
• Enterprise backup-to-disk (B2D) and archive-to-disk (A2D) platforms
• WORM (Write Once Read Many) compliance and regulatory retention systems

Technical specifications

Available from Omnixon Global. Submit an RFQ and our team will confirm configuration and availability for your order.