Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) introduced that it has began shipping the enterprise's highest-capability HDD samples to business enterprise OEMs and hyperscale customers worldwide. The 20TB Ultrastar DC HC650 SMR HDDs and 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 CMR HDDs, first previewed in June 2019, and introduced in September 2019, characteristic its first-ever commercial implementation of strength-assisted magnetic recording era on a nine-disk platform, permitting clients to greater efficiently provision and scale their data center environments with unmatched overall cost of ownership.
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With zettabyte-scale records growth, the want for better-potential information storage across a vast spectrum of applications and workloads may be reliably met simplest with excessive Capacity Enterprise HDDs. The enterprise-leading capacities of Western Digital's Ultrastar 20TB SMR and 18TB CMR HelioSeal HDDs allow customers to installation up to 22 percentage fewer racks and decrease their TCO through as much as 11 percent, alongside with the corresponding reductions in power consumption, cooling prices, and data center infrastructure desires whilst in comparison with trendy 14TB CMR HDDs.1
Western Digital achieves the enterprise's maximum areal density overall performance in these drives thru the modern use of strength-assisted magnetic recording. Together with the organisation's HelioSeal and SMR technology, triple-stage micro actuation and nine-disk platform, the strength-assisted recording technology gives an included solution, ensuing in the dramatic advantage in force capacities.
"The marketplace outlook for ability-optimized corporation HDDs remains very fantastic as IDC expects petabytes shipped to hyperscale cloud statistics facilities and for OEM garage structures and servers to grow at a mixed compound annual increase rate of 28% via 2023," said Ed Burns, Research Director, HDD and Storage Technologies at IDC. "Western Digital's new 20TB and 18TB HDDs should make a compelling case for customers to transition to higher capacity points as they are seeking extra garage and energy efficiencies inside the near-term while constructing extra value-effective and scalable infrastructures for the future."
"Delivering samples of our Ultrastar 20TB SMR and 18TB CMR HDDs marks a extensive milestone for Western Digital—demonstrating our enduring dedication to the open SMR-based totally ecosystem, in addition to our sturdy music document of innovation to offer super cost for our clients," said Phil Bullinger, senior vice president and popular supervisor of Western Digital's Data Center Business Unit. "These new HDDs deliver unsurpassed potential and are our first to leverage strength-assisted magnetic recording generation, enabling new levels of records middle efficiency and driving price introduction from statistics at scale."
Availability Western Digital is now sampling the 20TB Ultrastar DC HC650 SMR HDD and the 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 CMR HDD, with qualification and extent shipments predicted in the first half of of 2020.
