As the industry evolves to develop tailored solutions for growing data storage requirements, IT managers continue to rely on mid-capacity drives that are cost-effective while providing fast and reliable data access for traditional data center applications. The Ultrastar series is designed to handle workloads of up to 550 TB per year and offers a capacity of up to 8 TB to meet the economic and access density needs of many data centers. The Ultrastar series is ideal for storage and server applications, as well as distributed and scalable computing (including block and file storage architectures), delivering fast performance and lower acquisition costs to help reduce budget constraints.