Addressing the TCO necessities of information middle clients, Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) introduced its 9-disk mechanical platform, which includes energy-assisted recording technology and continues the employer's areal density management while handing over the best capacity to be had. The agency will sample the 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 CMR HDD and the 20TB Ultrastar DC HC650 SMR HDD to select customers by using the end of 2019 with production ramp anticipated inside the first half of 2020.
This fast ramp and availability of the 20TB SMR power following a technology preview in June 2019, helps a growing environment and the continuing industry adoption of SMR. Western Digital estimates that 50 percentage of its HDD exabytes shipped may be on SMR with the aid of 2023.2
"At Dropbox, we're continuously seeking out approaches to improve performance and strength in our statistics centers," said Akhil Gupta, vice chairman of engineering at Dropbox. "We're excited to see SMR drives reach a 20TB capability point, in an effort to allow us to electricity collaboration and deliver long-time period price to our customers."
Western Digital will provide a completely unique and full portfolio of Capacity Enterprise HDDs, with price-optimized configurations for each important ability point: six-disk 10TB Ultrastar DC HC330 air-based totally HDD; 8-disk 14TB Ultrastar DC HC530 helium-primarily based HDD; 9-disk 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 helium-primarily based HDD; and a nine-disk 20TB Ultrastar DC HC650 helium-based HDD. The enterprise's strong execution has led to a rapid ramp and majority share at its capability factor for the Ultrastar DC HC530 HDDthree, the enterprise's handiest available eight-disk 14TB CMR force. According to TRENDFOCUS, 14TB will continue to be the enterprise's dominant capability factor via the first 1/2 of 2020.1
"Western Digital keeps to innovate to supply green, motive-constructed storage with extraordinary TCO with the ultimate combination of enterprise-leading areal density, mechanical improvements and materials improvements," stated Christopher Bergey, senior vice chairman and popular manager of Data Center Devices, Western Digital. "Leveraging our success in bringing energy-assisted recording to marketplace with our information in mechanical layout, we will deliver this scalable HDD platform with full-size potential will increase to our customers, especially inside the transition from 14TB to 18TB."
John Chen, vice chairman at TRENDFOCUS, said, "As information continues to pour into the information center, there may be an appetite for meaningful capacity increases that in the end gain higher TCO. Western Digital has chosen ability points of 10TB/14TB/18TB constructed round six-, eight- and 9-disk systems to offer enough segmentation for the increasingly more complex workloads riding the following wave of hyperscale growth."
Rick Kutcipal, product line supervisor, Data Center Solutions Group at Broadcom, stated, "We retain to collaborate with Western Digital to supply host-controlled SMR and traditional CMR HDD high-potential solutions across a extensive atmosphere. Broadcom is a main supplier of agency garage infrastructure. Our aim is to allow clients to create choicest infrastructure designs that reduce risk whilst decreasing general machine value. By persevering with to deliver the highest capacities, Western Digital and Broadcom will enable clients to gain both time-to-market and TCO blessings for generations to come back."
Availability Western Digital's 10TB Ultrastar DC HC330 and 14TB Ultrastar DC HC530 are to be had now. The employer will sample the 20TB Ultrastar DC HC650 SMR HDD and the Ultrastar DC HC550 CMR HDD in 18TB and 16TB capacities to select customers by the give up of this yr, with qualification and quantity shipments starting within the first half of 2020.
