HPE 693569-008 900GB SAS 6 Gigabits 10K RPM SFF SC HDD.

HPE 693569-008 900GB SAS 6Gb/s 10K RPM Hard Drive

The HPE 693569-008 900GB Serial Attached SCSI 6Gb/s 10K RPM Small Form Factor SmartDrive is a high-performance enterprise-class storage solution designed for ProLiant Gen8 and Gen9 servers. Built to deliver exceptional reliability, speed, and scalability, this HP-certified hard drive is ideal for business-critical data centers, storage arrays, and enterprise workloads.

Main Features of HPE 693569-008 Hard Drive

• Capacity: 900GB for efficient storage management
• Interface: SAS 6Gb/s ensuring fast data transfer
• Form Factor: 2.5-inch SFF SmartDrive Carrier
• Spindle Speed: 10,000 RPM for optimal performance
• Type: Enterprise Hot-Plug Hard Drive
• Compatibility: Designed for HP ProLiant Gen8 & Gen9 servers
• Dual Port for advanced connectivity and redundancy

Compatibility and Usage

This hard drive is built to seamlessly integrate with:

• HP ProLiant Gen8 Servers
• HP ProLiant Gen9 Servers
• HP Storage Arrays supporting 2.5-inch SAS SmartDrive Carrier Bays

Enterprise-Grade Reliability

With a genuine HP serial number and firmware, this hard disk drive ensures full compatibility with HP systems. Its enterprise certification guarantees:

• High durability for continuous 24/7 workloads
• Secure data handling with enterprise-level protocols
• Smart monitoring and diagnostic tools

Technical Specifications

General Details

• Category: ProLiant Hard Drive
• Sub-Category: 10K SAS SC
• Part Number: 693569-008
• Assembly Part Number: 693569-008
• Products ID: 201071

Performance

• Spindle Speed: 10,000 RPM
• Data Transfer Speed: 6Gb/s
• Interface: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
• Hot-Swap Supported

Advanced Connectivity

The dual-port design allows simultaneous connections, ensuring redundancy and maximizing uptime. This feature is essential for mission-critical applications where downtime is not an option.

Ideal Use Cases

This HP enterprise SAS hard drive is perfect for:

• Database management systems
• Virtualization environments
• Business-critical applications
• Enterprise-level storage arrays
• High-performance computing tasks

Evolution of SAS Technology

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) represents the advancement of traditional SCSI technology by combining its software benefits with a serial physical interface. With increasing enterprise storage needs, SAS delivers:

• Greater scalability for expanding infrastructures
• Improved data accessibility for multiple users simultaneously
• High density and capacity for modern data centers
• Resilient architecture for 24/7 operations

Scalability and Growth

Enterprises today demand storage solutions that grow with their business. The HPE 693569-008 SAS HDD supports continuous expansion without compromising performance, making it an excellent investment for long-term IT infrastructure.

Security and Maintenance

• Supports advanced error correction for data integrity
• Designed for maintenance while in operation
• Ensures compliance with enterprise data protection standards

HPE 693569-008 900GB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 

The HPE 693569-008 is a purpose-built enterprise hard disk drive (HDD) engineered for modern datacenter workloads that demand predictable performance, high reliability, and compact form-factor efficiency. Mentioned throughout this description as the "693569-008 900GB SAS 6Gb/s 10K SFF SC," this drive pairs a 900 gigabyte formatted capacity with a 10,000 RPM spindle speed and a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 6 gigabits-per-second interface — a combination designed to provide sustained throughput, low-latency I/O, and long duty-cycle endurance. The drive ships in HPE's SmartCarrier (SC) hot-plug tray for direct integration into ProLiant servers and storage enclosures, and is broadly compatible with Gen8/Gen9/Gen10 HPE systems and multi-vendor SAS backplanes that accept 2.5" SFF enterprise drives.

Key specifications and technical identity

Form factor and mechanical design

As a 2.5-inch Small Form Factor (SFF) device, the 693569-008 balances capacity density and thermal/mechanical efficiency. The compact 2.5" enclosure reduces weight and power per terabyte compared with larger 3.5" spindles, making it ideal for high-density blade and rack servers. The drive's hot-plug SmartCarrier (SC) design enables tool-less insertion and removal while maintaining enterprise hot-swap capability.

Interface and protocol

The drive uses the SAS 6 Gb/s physical layer and SAS protocol stack — a full-duplex, point-to-point architecture that supports enterprise-level command queuing, dual-port redundancy in supported arrays, and strong error management. SAS preserves compatibility with many server HBAs and RAID controllers and is preferred in multi-drive arrays and SAN/NAS appliances where resilience and command concurrency are important.

On-disk data layout, sectoring and capacity handling

The 900GB capacity is typically presented with 512n or 512e sectoring depending on firmware and vendor labeling; legacy and storage-controller compatibility should be verified when deploying into older arrays that require a specific sector format. Enterprise drives such as the 693569-008 often include sector remapping, background media scanning, and internal defect management to maintain logical capacity and consistent performance over the drive's service life.

Firmware and vendor integration

HPE-certified firmware and part-level programming make the 693569-008 recognizable to HPE management tools (iLO, SmartStorage, and array firmware). Using drives with HPE firmware in HPE servers ensures accurate SMART telemetry, predictive failure analysis, and integrated firmware-update workflows. When purchasing from third-party or refurbished channels, confirm genuine HPE firmware and serial-number authenticity to avoid feature loss or degraded monitoring.

Reliability, endurance, and enterprise readiness

MTBF, workload rating and duty cycle

Enterprise SAS drives are designed for 24/7 operation under heavy I/O. The 693569-008 is manufactured and validated for continuous datacenter use with a workload rating appropriate to mixed-use and mission-critical pools. Typical enterprise parameters include high mean time between failures (MTBF) metrics, robust error recovery procedures, and firmware optimized to minimize rebuild-induced stress on platters during RAID operations.

Use cases and workload fit

Primary datacenter tiers

The 693569-008 is frequently allocated to mid-tier performance pools where a balance of capacity and IOPS-per-dollar is desired. Typical placements include:

• Virtual machine host datastores: low-latency reads and random writes for many small VMs
• Database log and index volumes: rapid commit times and consistent I/O
• Hybrid arrays where HDD acts as the persistent layer under caching SSDs
• Archive tiers requiring faster access than nearline SMR drives but higher density than 15K spindles

Compatibility, server integration and carrier considerations

SmartCarrier and backplane support

The "SC" SmartCarrier is designed for HPE ProLiant hot-swap bays. While many multi-vendor backplanes accept 2.5" SFF drives, some servers require the exact SmartCarrier tray or adapter to provide proper latching, LED activity reporting, and status signaling. When retrofitting drives into a non-HPE chassis, confirm mechanical fit and that the drive's firmware will not trigger compatibility alerts in the host firmware.

Controller and RAID considerations

SAS controllers and RAID adapters detect drive types and often apply drive-specific tuning (write cache policies, error recovery timeouts). Best practice is to use the same generation and model family drives within a RAID group to avoid rebuild performance mismatches and to ensure consistent SMART thresholding. Mix-and-match with non-enterprise drives (consumer SATA) is discouraged in production arrays.

Power, thermal and acoustic profile

Due to the 10K rotational speed, the 693569-008 will have a higher power draw at spin-up and during sustained seeks than 7.2K alternatives. However, compared with 15K enterprise spindles, the 10K design offers a favorable power-to-performance ratio. When planning dense deployments, account for cumulative power and thermal loads and ensure adequate chassis airflow and ambient cooling to maximize lifetime and reduce throttling or thermal-related errors.

Power management options

• Host-managed spin-down (if supported by firmware and controller)
• Adaptive power modes in server BIOS/firmware
• Drive-level idle acoustic and power-reduction features

Comparisons, trade-offs and alternatives

Vs. 15K RPM enterprise SAS drives

Compared to 15K SAS spindles, 10K drives like the 693569-008 offer lower power consumption and higher capacity per platter at slightly higher seek/latency numbers. For many virtualized and OLTP environments, 10K drives deliver a sweet spot of performance, cost, and capacity. When ultra-low latency and the highest IOPS per spindle are required, 15K drives or enterprise SSDs might still be preferable.

Vs. Nearline 7.2K SAS/SATA drives

Nearline drives maximize capacity at lower cost and power consumption, but they sacrifice random IOPS and latency. The 10K 900GB disk is a better fit where transactional performance matters yet full SSD adoption is economically impractical.

Vs. SSD and NVMe tiers

Solid-state options offer orders-of-magnitude lower latency and higher IOPS, but cost-per-gigabyte and endurance/retention characteristics differ. Many datacenters adopt hybrid tiering (SSDs for cache/logs, 10K SAS for primary persistent storage) to balance cost and performance; the 693569-008 integrates well into such tiered architectures as the persistent layer behind a flash cache.

Security and data sanitization

Secure erase and decommissioning

Enterprise drives should be securely erased using NIST-compliant wipe utilities or hardware-accelerated secure-erase commands prior to disposal or redeployment. For drives used in regulated environments, physical destruction or certified data-erasure certificates may be required to meet compliance frameworks.

Encryption and self-encrypting drive (SED) considerations

If encryption at rest is required by policy, confirm whether the drive or the host controller supports hardware-based self-encrypting features. If the 693569-008 does not include SED capability, encryption can still be implemented at the host or array level with minimal performance impact when using modern controllers.