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 |