Dell 6TB 3.5-inch 7.2K SATA 6Gbps Hard Drive

Here is a 6TB hard drive for 3.5-inch SATA bays, made by Seagate. It spins at 7.2K rpm and connects at 6Gbps.

It is meant for PowerEdge servers and PowerVault arrays with 3.5-inch SATA bays. In a RAID 6 set, two drives’ worth of space goes to parity, so plan around usable rather than raw capacity. Dell-labelled drives carry Dell firmware, which is what PowerEdge RAID controllers expect to see. Once a replacement is fitted, the RAID controller rebuilds the array onto it, and larger drives take longer to rebuild. A spare of the same model cuts the time an array spends degraded when a drive fails. Fit it in the caddy that suits your server generation; caddies differ between generations. In a hot-plug bay with a redundant RAID level, a failed disk can usually be swapped while the server keeps running. It runs from a SATA port or from most server RAID controllers and HBAs. In an existing array, keep new disks at the same capacity, speed and interface as their neighbours.

It is supplied certified refurbished: inspected, bench-tested and data-wiped in Johannesburg before release.