DELL 5WT78 6TB 3.5" SAS 7200 RPM internal hard drive

Dell 5WT78 6 TB SAS drive

The Dell 5WT78 is a new 6 TB 3.5-inch internal hard drive with a SAS 6 Gb/s interface spinning at 7200 RPM. It arrives as a bare drive with a tray for hot-swap bays in Dell PowerEdge servers. The nearline design targets bulk storage workloads in enterprise environments.

Suited for hot-swap server bays.

This drive fits administrators who need high-capacity nearline storage in a hot-swap SAS chassis. It is not for systems that lack a SAS backplane or controller, nor for laptops or small-form-factor enclosures that only accept 2.5-inch drives. Workloads requiring solid-state latency should consider a different media type.

SAS 6 Gb/s interface decides compatibility

The single specification that determines fit is the SAS 6 Gb/s interface; the host must provide a matching SAS port and backplane. Without that connection the drive cannot communicate, regardless of capacity or spindle speed. Verify the server or controller supports 6 Gb/s SAS before purchase.