WesternDigitalwithin the framework of your event what’s nextheld in San Francisco, has presented its developments related to data storage and management, as well as the new strategy that it proposes around them, so that companies and professionals can get the most out of them with more facilities. Among these solutions there are several innovations related to HDD hard drives and also to Flash memory.
At the event, opened by the Western Digital CEO David Goeckelerand by senior managers of the company, such as Rob Soderberry, Vice President of Western Digital and General Manager of its Flash Division. Also for Ahsley Gorakhpurwalolla, Vice President of Western Digital and Head of the HDD Division company, which introduced the industry’s first 22TB CMR and 26TB SMR hard drives.
Both disks are part of the cloud data storage solutions presented by the company, which together with a new family of high-capacity PCIs Gen4 NVMe SSDs, are designed so that their owners can develop storage solutions in a more efficient way. efficient. In addition, the company has also presented a new PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD unit, designed for hybrid work and with sequential read speeds of up to 5150 MB/s in a slim, low-weight and low-power format.
Another of the novelties that the company has brought to the event has been the SanDisk Professional Pro-Blade modular SSD ecosystem, designed to capture, transfer and preserve content in high resolution with a lower cost of storage and with the possibility of having one less team bulky and heavy. In addition, it has expanded its range of WD_Black gaming solutions, with the new WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe SSD Y WD_BLACK P40 Game Drive SSDof which they speak to us in detail from Muycomputer.
22 and 26 TB hard drives with OptiNAND technology
The new 22 and 26 TB SMR hard drives feature OptiNAND technology, allowing them to achieve high-capacity drives, performance and data resiliency. So the new 22TB CMR drive, the Ultrastar® DC HC570, incorporates this technology to improve drive areal density on a mature 2.2TB/platter HelioSeal platform with ten drives.
by combining OptiNAND With firmware that takes advantage of hardware advances at the hard drive system level, the new UltraSMR technology Western Digital offers large block encoding with an advanced error correction algorithm that increases tracks per inch to allow for higher capacity. This has made possible the release of the album 26TB Ultrastar DC HC670 UltraSMRwhich offers 2.6 TB per platter.
Thanks to OptiNAND, the hard drives also incorporate the ArmorCache write cache data security feature and offer the performance of Write Cache Enablement (WCE), combined with the data protection offered by this write cache to count. with a higher level of data protection in case of emergency shutdown. OptiNAND also gives drives a significant performance boost also in WCD mode, higher on random writes with larger block transfers than with other technologies.
The HC570 hard drive will be available to channel partners in the summer, just as the UltraSMR hard drive will be available to select customers. Ultrastar Data60 and Data102 JBOD arrays will feature Ultrastar CMR 22TB drives this summer. In addition, Western Digital will expand its portfolio of OptiNAND hard drives with the launch of the hard drive WD Purple Pro 22 TB for video surveillance, hard drives WD Red Pro for NAS solutions and drives WD Gold for system integrators and resellers that provide services to companies and SMEs. They will all arrive this summer.
New high-capacity NVMe SSD drives
Western Digital has also announced that some of its hyperscale customers have already started receiving their new drives. Ultrastar NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD. Designed to deliver performance at scale and lower cost of ownership in public clouds. These units accelerate the deployment of cloud services and the scalability of data centers.
The new family of units Ultrastar DC SN650 NVMe SSD it is available in 2.5-inch format for traditional infrastructure, and in a slimmer E1.L ruler format. In both cases, they are available with capacities of up to 15.36 TB, latest generation BiCS 3D TLC NAND and PCI e 4.0 interface.
These drives are designed to improve storage resource utilization by increasing the number of virtualized hosts per SSD and consolidating larger application data sets. These data sets also benefit when moving to higher capacities thanks to the low latency and higher performance of this new range of SSDs, leading to faster information access and real-time analysis.
OCP 1.0a compliant, E1 form factor drive is thinner and has higher rack storage density, lowering cost of ownership and improving manageability, maintainability and efficiency of storage. Western Digital is currently testing these drives, and expects to begin shipping these SSDs into production in the second half of 2022.
Western Digital SanDisk Professional PRO-BLADE Modular SSD
Western Digital’s new releases at this event also include several products from SanDisk and SanDisk Professional, including a modular SSD ecosystem for creators: the SanDisk Professional PRO-BLADE Modular SSD. It is characterized by being designed to meet the needs of various ultra-fast portable storage devices by quickly managing, editing and copying large volumes of high-resolution content. With this they manage to optimize the workflow and give it a high level of scalability and time savings, both in a studio and in remote locations.
The ecosystem includes the charger SSD NVMw PRO-BLADE SSD Mag, whose purpose is to load the modular SSD ecosystem and that allows you to immediately expand the storage you need anywhere. Up to four SSD chargers can be plugged into the PRO-BLADE Station desktop system, which we will cover later. Withstands falls of up to 3 meters and crushing of up to 1815 kilos. It will be available in capacities of 1TB for an RRP of €215.99, 2TB for €354.99 (RRP) and 4TB for €699.99 (RRP). They will be available from next June.
PRO-BLADE Transport it is a modular SSD system with a high level of scalability. It allows multiple PRO-BLADE Mag SSDs to be combined with the PRO-BLADE Transport portable system with USB-C, allowing read and write speeds of up to 2000 MB/s. It will be available with 0 TB for 89.99 euros, 1 TB for 285.99 euros, 2 TB for 423.99 euros and 4 TB for 769.99 euros. It will also arrive in June.
By last, PRO-BLADE SSD Station It is a desktop system that uses a Thunderbolt 3 interface, with a transfer speed of 40 GB/s, with which up to 4 PRO-BLADE Mag SSDs can be charged and exchanged at the same time. It enables you to power up a modular and scalable SSD workstation for tasks like simultaneous downloading, real-time 4K or higher editing, and high-speed copying. It will be available at the end of 2022.
