WD Ultrastar DC HC550 Spec and Price in France
The HC550 is WD's data-center nearline drive of the 16-18TB generation: helium-sealed, 7200rpm, a 512MB cache, and a 2.5M-hour MTBF with a five-year warranty, per the WD data sheet. It is CMR with a 550TB/year workload rating, built for servers and enterprise arrays rather than desktop use — the 3.5-inch SATA form factor slots into any chassis, but the price assumes the buyer needs the endurance and the 24/7 rating, not the speed.
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The last tracked price for the 16TB WD Ultrastar DC HC550 in France was 439,90 € at Amazon.fr, captured 2026-09-09. Across one tracked merchant and 984 days of recorded prices, the 90-day median for the 16TB WD Ultrastar DC HC550 is 595,80 € and the lowest recorded price is 219,00 €. This site began capturing prices on July 30, 2026; for Amazon listings, prices dated earlier come from Keepa's price history.
Captured periodically and may have changed.
- 16TB
- 18TB
Each point is one day's recorded price, not a list price. Points dated before July 30, 2026, when this site began capturing prices, come from Keepa's Amazon price history. How we track prices
Specifications
- Capacity
- 16TB
- Interface
- SATA
- Sequential read
- 262 MB/s
- Sequential write
- 262 MB/s
- Rotation speed
- 7200 RPM
- Form factor
- 3.5-inch
- Cache
- 512 MB
- Warranty
- 5 years
Capacities
| Configuration | Part number | Rotation speed | Cache | Current best price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16TB | WUH721816ALE6L4 | 7200 RPM | 512 MB | 439,90 € Price too old to confirm |
| 18TB | WUH721818ALE6L4 | 7200 RPM | 512 MB | 751,28 € Price too old to confirm |
Guides for this category
Sources
Every spec above was pulled from one of these — a field a source didn't state was left off rather than estimated.
- https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/data-center-drives/ultrastar-dc-hc500-series/data-sheet-ultrastar-dc-hc550.pdf
- https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/data-center-drives/ultrastar-dc-hc500-series/data-sheet-part-numbers-ultrastar-dc-hc550.pdf