Enterprise Value HDD

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Affordable, high-capacity, energy-efficient enterprise HDD

The Seagate® Enterprise Value HDD (formerly Constellation® CS) offers low-cost bulk storage designed for vast amounts of unstructured data in the cloud.

  • Affordable storage for 24×7 cloud data centre replicated environments
  • Maximises storage footprint with capacities up to 3TB for 114TB per square foot
  • Energy-efficient at under 8 watts (random read operating power), which averages 29% less than competing hard drives
  • Reliable enterprise rotational vibration tolerance and bad block management
  • Seagate Instant Secure Erase for secure, easy and cost-effective drive disposal or repurposing

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Affordable high-capacity storage for the cloud

Seagate® Constellation® CS is the industry’s first capacity-optimised hard drive that is perfect for cloud bulk storage.

Priced to fit your growing need for vast amounts of unstructured data storage with its 1, 2 and 3TB models, it is the lowest £/GB enterprise-class hard drive on the market.

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Energy-efficient, enterprise-class cloud storage

With the Constellation CS and its low-power envelope, you can rest easier knowing that your hard drives are running cool. Plus, with Seagate® PowerChoice™ technology, you can save even more.

Reduce storage costs over the long term.

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Maximise ROI with Seagate Instant Secure Erase

The Constellation CS with a Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option and Seagate Instant Secure Erase reduces IT hard drive retirement costs. As required, and with a single keystroke, you can quickly and easily render the data on the drive completely unreadable and secure.

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Features

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Room to grow.

Constellation® CS hard drives feature the highest capacities to meet the needs of scalable burst performance in cloud infrastructures.

  • 1, 2 and 3TB models
  • 7,200-rpm performance
  • SATA 6Gb/s interface
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Reliable, low-power and cost-effective storage.

Constellation CS hard drives feature consistent performance with low power usage for the most economical means of storing exabytes of unstructured data in the cloud.

  • Enterprise-ready RV tolerance for multi-drive systems
  • Bad-block management (BBM)
  • Lowest power usage in a 3.5 inch form factor
  • 3-year limited warranty
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Secure and easy drive disposal

Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with Seagate Instant Secure Erase technology for drive retirement or disposal.

  • Every day, thousands of terabytes of data leave data centres as old systems are retired
  • Seagate's Instant Secure Erase feature renders all data on the hard drive unreadable in a matter of seconds rather than hours
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Specifications

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Capacity 3TB 2TB 1TB
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Form Factor 3.5" 3.5" 3.5"
Interface Options SATA 6Gb/s SATA 6Gb/s SATA 6Gb/s
Performance      
Spindle Speed (RPM) 7200 7200 7200
Cache (MB) 64 64 64
Transfer Rate, Max Ext (MB/s) 600 600 600
Sustained Data Rate OD 180MB/s 180MB/s 180MB/s
Average Latency (ms) 4.16 4.16 4.16
Reliability/Data Integrity      
Non-recoverable Read Errors per Bits Read 1 in 1014 1 in 1014 1 in 1014
Annualised Failure Rate (AFR) 1.065% 1.065% 1.065%
Power Management      
Idling, Typical Operating (W) 0.34 0.34 0.34
Environmental      
Temperature      
Operating 5° to 60°C 5° to 60°C 5° to 60°C
Non-operating -40° to 70°C -40° to 70°C -40° to 70°C
Shock      
Operating: Gs (ms) 70 / 40 (2ms) 70 / 40 (2ms) 70 / 40 (2ms)
Non-operating: Gs (ms) 300 (2ms) 300 (2ms) 350 (2ms)
Acoustics (bels - sound power)      
Idling 2.5 2.4 2.2
Operating 2.5 2.4 2.2
Physical      
Height (in/mm) (maximum) 1.028/26.10 1.028/26.10 0.7825/20.17
Width (in/mm) (maximum) 4.010/101.85 4.010/101.85 4.010/101.85
Length (in/mm) (maximum) 5.787/147.00 5.787/147.00 5.787/147.00
Weight (lbs/g) 1.38/626 1.18/535 0.88/400
Model Number Capacity Interface Cache (MB) Spindle Speed (RPM) AFR Maximum Height Maximum Width Maximum Length Operating Temperature Areal Density Average Operating Power
ST3000NC002 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB 7200RPM 1.065% 26.10mm 101.85mm 147.00mm 60°C 625 7.79W
ST3000NC000 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB 7200RPM 1.065% 26.10mm 101.85mm 147.00mm 60°C 625 7.79W
ST2000NC001 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB 7200RPM 1.065% 26.10mm 101.85mm 147.00mm 60°C 625 7.79W
ST2000NC000 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB 7200RPM 1.065% 26.10mm 101.85mm 147.00mm 60°C 625 7.79W
ST1000NC000 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB 7200RPM 1.065% 20.17mm 101.85mm 147.00mm 60°C 625 7.79W
ST1000NC001 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB 7200RPM 1.065% 20.17mm 101.85mm 147.00mm 60°C 625 7.79W