Seagate® Constellation® ES SATA 6Gb/s 500-GB Hard Drive with Secure Encryption
Key Features and Benefits
- Reduces design and support costs by building on the Seagate best-in-class enterprise storage foundation
- Features a range of high capacities—from 500GB to 2TB—in a 3.5-inch enterprise-class hard disk drive
- Offers a traditional 3.5-inch form factor with enhanced rotational vibration tolerance and high data integrity for enterprise-class reliability in a cost-effective drive
- Delivers proven reliability, with an MTBF* of 1.2 million hours and enhanced end-to-end data integrity with Protection Information feature
- Lets you choose a 6Gb/s Enterprise SATA or 6Gb/s SAS interface easing integration and delivering up to 2x the throughput of 3Gb/s nearline hard drives
- Reduces energy and cooling costs, with the lowest power consumption of any nearline 3.5-inch drive
- Includes Seagate PowerChoice™ technology for even greater on-demand power savings during slow or idle periods
- TCG-compliant, Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) security option eliminates the need to overwrite or physically destroy drives, enables safe return of drives for warranty or expired lease purposes and allows organizations to securely repurpose or sell hard disk drives**
- Meets regulatory data security compliance requirements and is FIPS 140-2 Validated™ to protect Sensitive but Unclassified and Protected class data**
*Mean time between failures
**Not available in all models or countries. Requires TCG-compliant host or controller support. TM: The FIPS logo is a certification mark of NIST, which does not imply product endorsement by NIST, the U.S., or Canadian Governments.