Western Digital introduces hard drives from 18 e 20 TB.
Western Digital released a press release in which it began sampling hdd from 18 TB e 20 TB, the latter of which uses technology SMR. SMR (shingled magnetic recording) is short for layered magnetic recording, which will be a kind of intermediate step to be able to manufacture larger HDDs based on HAMR.
Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) announced that it has started shipping samples HDD industry-leading capacity to OEMs and hyperscale customers around the world. HDDs Ultrastar DC HC650 SMR da 20 TB he HDD CMR Ultrastar DC HC550 da 18 TB, which premiered in June 2019 and announced in September 2019, present the first commercial implementation of energy-assisted magnetic recording technology on a nine-disk platform, enabling customers to more efficiently deliver and scale their data center environments with an unmatched total cost of ownership.
With data growth at scale zettabyte, the need for higher capacity data storage across a broad spectrum of applications and workloads can only be reliably met with High Capacity Enterprise HDDs. The industry-leading capabilities of Western Digital Ultrastar HDDs from 20TB SMR e CMT da 18TB HelioSeal enable customers to deploy up to 22 percent fewer racks and reduce their TCO by up to 11 percent, along with corresponding reductions in power consumption, cooling costs and data center infrastructure needs compared to today's HDD CMR da 14 TB.1.
Western Digital achieves the industry's highest areal density performance in these units through the innovative use of energy-assisted magnetic recording. Together with technologies HelioSeal e SMR to the three-stage micro-actuation and 9-disc platform, the energy-assisted recording technology provides an integrated solution, resulting in a significant increase in drive capacities.
“The market outlook for capacity-optimized enterprise HDDs remains very positive as IDC expects petabytes to be sent to hyperscale cloud data centers and OEM storage systems and servers to grow at a combined compound annual growth rate of 28%. until 2023, ”he said Ed Burns, Director of Research, HDD and Storage Technologies at IDC. “Western Digital's new 20TB and 18TB HDDs should be a compelling case for customers to move to higher capacity points as they seek greater storage and energy efficiencies in the short term, while building cheaper and scalable infrastructure for the future. . "
“The delivery of samples of our 20TB SMR and CMT 18TB Ultrastar HDDs is a significant milestone for Western Digital, demonstrating our ongoing commitment to the SMR-based open ecosystem, as well as our solid track record of innovation for offer great value to our customers, ”he said Phil Bullinger, senior vice president and general manager of Western Digital's Business Unit Data Center. "These new HDDs offer unsurpassed capacity and are our first to take advantage of energy-assisted magnetic recording technology, enabling new levels of data center efficiency and driving data value creation at scale."
Western Digital is now sampling theUltrastar DC HC650 SMR HDD da 20 TB and l 'CMR Ultrastar DC HC550 18 TB HDD, with qualifications and volumes expected in the first half of 2020.
