AA715973 DELL 16TB 7.2K SATA 3.5 6Gb/s HDD 14G KIT 512e FS
Warranty: 3 Year
Dell puts its Enterprise Hard Drive offerings through a rigorous validation process before they are ever considered as additions to its line of PowerVault storage systems and PowerEdge servers. Only the very best drives meeting exacting specifications such as those for performance, duty cycles, Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and rotational vibration necessary for an enterprise-level environment are accepted for customer usage.
• Highest reliability and performance out of the hard-drive offerings
• Fast time-to-data through their low rotational latency and fast seek times
• A good balance between high IOPS (Input/Output operations per second), MB/second throughput and capacity
• 1.6M hour MTBF
• 24x7x365 operations
• Availability of data through both ports simultaneously
Dell puts its Enterprise Hard Drive offerings through a rigorous validation process before they are ever considered as additions to its line of PowerVault storage systems and PowerEdge servers. Only the very best drives meeting exacting specifications such as those for performance, duty cycles, Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and rotational vibration necessary for an enterprise-level environment are accepted for customer usage.
• Highest reliability and performance out of the hard-drive offerings
• Fast time-to-data through their low rotational latency and fast seek times
• A good balance between high IOPS (Input/Output operations per second), MB/second throughput and capacity
• 1.6M hour MTBF
• 24x7x365 operations
• Availability of data through both ports simultaneously
Compatible with:
Dell PowerEdge C-Series C6420
Dell PowerEdge R-Series R640 R740 R740XD R7415 R7425 R840 R940 R940xa
Dell PowerVault M-Series MD1400 MD1420
Dell NAS NX-Series NX3240 NX3340 NX430 NX440
- New, award-winning 14th generation of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers enable up to 50% more VDI users per server
- Easy-to-use, next-generation OpenManage Enterprise™ console engineered to unify system management experience
- New security features for enhanced protection against malicious threats and unwanted internal changes
- ProSupport Plus with SupportAssist can reduce time to resolve hardware issues by up to 90%
Support for media in Windows and Linux Environment
| Drive formats | Reported logical sector size | Reported physical sector size | Versions Suport |
| 512-byte Native, 512n | 512 bytes | 512 bytes | All Windows versions All Linux versions |
| Advanced Format, 512e, AF, 512-byte Emulation | 512 bytes | 4096 bytes | Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 with MS KB 982018 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Windows Server 2008 with MS KB 2553708 RHEL 6.1 SLES 11 SP2 Ubuntu 13.10 Ubuntu 12.04.4 |
| Advanced Format, AF, 4K Native, 4Kn* | 4096 bytes | 4096 bytes | Windows Server 2012 (4k data disks are supported and as boot disks in UEFI mode) and any newer Windows Server version RHEL 6.1 SLES 11 SP2 Ubuntu 13.10 Ubuntu 12.04.4 |
Application Support for 512E and 4K
| Application | 512e | 4Kn | Comments |
| VMware | ESXi 6.5 (Q4 2016) | No | Planned in 2017 |
| Oracle | Yes | Yes | |
| Microsoft Exchange | Yes | Yes | Exchange 2013 and later |
| SQL | Yes | Yes | |
| VDI | Yes | No | 4Kn support ~2017** |
Product Specifications:
| Brand | Dell |
| Model | AA715973 |
| Capacity | 16TB |
| Spindle Speed | 7,200 RPM |
| Interface | SATA |
| External Data Transfer Rate | 6Gb/s |
| Form Factor | 3.5 in |