Western Digital Ships Samples Of New 20TB And 18TB HDDs
Zacks Investment Research | Dec 23, 2019 11:21PM ET
Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ:WDC) recently announced that it has begun shipping high-capacity HDD samples to enterprise OEMs and hyperscale customers. The samples include 20TB Ultrastar DC HC650 SMR HDDs and 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 CMR HDDs.
The products are being sampled with nearly a dozen enterprises globally, including Dropbox (NASDAQ:DBX) . Qualification and volume shipments on these HDDs are expected in the first half of 2020.
The products, which were first previewed in June 2019, features the first-ever commercial deployment of energy-assisted magnetic recording technology on a nine-disk platform. The technology enables customers to provision and scale their data center environments with total cost of ownership.
High Capacity HDDs to Support Enterprise Workloads
Alongside a strong track record of innovation, the launch of high-capacity HDDs indicates Western Digital’s commitment to launch SMR-based ecosystem. Notably, such capacity-optimized enterprise HDDs address the demand for high volume data storage across a wide array of applications and enterprise workloads.
Western Digital’s Ultrastar 20TB SMR and 18TB CMR HelioSeal HDDs will aid customers to deploy up to 22% fewer racks and reduce their TCO by up to 11%, compared with the currently used 14TB CMR HDDs. Additionally, the new HDDs reduce power consumption, cooling costs, and data center infrastructure needs.
These drives make use of the industry’s highest areal density performance, through innovative utilization of energy-assisted magnetic recording. The magnetic strip along with the company’s HelioSeal, SMR technologies, triple-stage micro actuation and 9-disk platform play a crucial role in boosting drive capacity.
Moreover, capacity-optimized enterprise HDDs are expected to gain traction owing to growth in OEM storage systems and servers, and petabytes shipped to hyperscale cloud data centers.
The new 20TB and 18TB HDDs will aid Western Digital to cater to customers looking for a transition to higher capacity points for greater storage and energy efficiencies. The products are also likely to aid in cost efficiency and scalable infrastructures in the long run.
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