HP 500GB 7200rpm Internal SATA 3.5" Non-Hot Plug Midline Hard Drive - 458941-B21
HP SATA Midline drives are designed with economical reliability and performance for external storage, backups and archival applications.Learn more about the product
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HP introduces the next generation of SATA drives designed for the reliability and mass storage demanded by today's entry server and external storage environments. HP SATA Midline drives are designed with economical reliability and performance for external storage, backups and archival applications. These high capacity drives provide the lowest $/GB to our customers. Midline SATA drives provide the best price advantage for non-mission critical applications with low workloads of 40% or less.
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HP SATA Midline high capacity, lowest $/GB drives are designed with economical reliability and performance for external storage deployments in non-mission critical, low workload environments.
Enterprise disk to disk backup and restore systems
Archiving solutions and rich media content storage, such as video
Low cost bulk storage for reference data repositories and secondary storage tape augmentation
Networked and tiered storage solutions, reference/compliance storage
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Midline SATA offers customers and system builders the lowest $/GB drives for bulk storage solutions. With a greater set of feature and functionality over its' Entry counterpart, Midline drives provide the necessary but economical reliability and performance for more demanding external storage environments. The following features
Increased relaibility of approximately two times Entry drive reliability based on < 40% workload
Workload Management detects a specific temperature threshold, drive throttles performance to protect itself
Improved rotational vibration robustness for immunity to environmental rotational affects
Native Command Queuing (NCQ) to increase performance of SATA hard disks by optimizing the order in which received read and write commands are executed
Buffer Error Detection is used to protect the data in the drive buffer via parity or ECC
ime Limited Error Recovery (TLER) purposely constrains the drive to report the error as soon as possible within 5 seconds vs. unlimited retries
Microcode Download provides ability to flash new firmware to the drive