Affordable, high-capacity, energy-efficient enterprise HDD.
Low-cost bulk storage designed for vast amounts of unstructured data in the cloud.
- Affordable storage for 24×7 cloud data center replicated environments
- Maximizes 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
Affordable high-capacity storage for the cloud.
Seagate® Constellation® CS is the industry’s first capacity-optimized hard drive that’s 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’s 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 your hard drives are running cool. Plus, with Seagate® PowerChoice™ technology, you can save even more.
Maximize 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.
Products specifications
| Attribute name |
Attribute value |
|
Weight
|
22.1 oz |
|
Width
|
4.01" |
|
Height
|
1.03" |
|
HDD number of heads
|
6 |
|
Start/stop cycles
|
300000 |
|
Depth
|
5.79" |
|
SMART technology
|
Yes |
|
Internal
|
Yes |
|
Write seek time
|
10.5 ms |
|
Read seek time
|
9.5 ms |
|
Mean time between failures (MTBF)
|
800000 h |
|
Bytes per sector
|
4096 |
|
Component for
|
NAS |
|
Data transfer rate
|
6 Gbit/s |
|
HDD size
|
3.5" |
|
HDD speed
|
7200 RPM |
|
Storage drive buffer size
|
64 MB |
|
Hot-Plug support
|
Yes |
|
HDD capacity
|
3 TB |
|
Linux operating systems supported
|
Yes |
|
Number of products included
|
1 pc(s) |
|
Interface
|
Serial ATA III |
|
Power consumption (idle)
|
5.53 W |
|
Power consumption (read)
|
8 W |
|
Power consumption (write)
|
8 W |
|
Operating voltage
|
5 / 12 V |
|
Operating temperature (T-T)
|
5 - 60 °C |
|
Storage temperature (T-T)
|
-40 - 70 °C |
|
Operating relative humidity (H-H)
|
5 - 95 % |
|
Storage relative humidity (H-H)
|
5 - 95 % |
|
Windows operating systems supported
|
Yes |
|
Mac operating systems supported
|
Yes |