HDD
The Race to Seal Helium HDDs
Long thought impossible, sealing helium has been one of the greatest breakthroughs for high-capacity hard drives.
April 7, 2021 • 6 min read Products
The Project That Never Sleeps
It started with a photo of the sun rising over NYC. Now photographer Joseph DiGiovanna's project will capture the city over 30 years.
December 14, 2020 • 6 min read Technology
It’s Here! WD Red™ Pro 16TB & 18TB for Growing Productivity Needs
2020's massive shift to remote work means productivity and efficiency is changing everywhere, which makes a robust NAS infrastructure such as WD Red Pro provides a necessity for backup, data protection, remote access and digital collaboration.
September 23, 2020 • 3 min read Data
Three Technologies that Make HDD Magic
More bits, more tracks, more disks — this is how we made magic with our new 18TB and 20TB HDDs.
July 8, 2020 • 6 min read Data
Zonefs File-System Will Land with Linux® 5.6
A monumental milestone, because landing a new file system in the kernel is one of the hardest things to do in Linux and it opens up a whole new world for developers who want to take advantage of zoned devices.
February 24, 2020 • 6 min read Data
2019 Data Center Year in Review
A year-end recap of digital use cases, vertical applications, and cloud architecture options for your perusal, matched with the key Western Digital product and technological announcements we made throughout the year.
December 16, 2019 • 8 min read Data
Go for WD Gold, Our Enterprise-Class HDDs
This post was updated on 7/8/2020 to reflect new 18 TB storage capacities, energy-assisted technology, and triple-stage actuator features. As data continues to grow, it adds complexities to the storage architecture of our customers. Whether data is generated from healthcare records, consumer habits, or financial transactions, reliable storage and quick access to the data in […]
September 24, 2019 • 3 min read Data
The Ultrastar DC HC300 Family Just Got a 10TB HDD Boost
Our R&D teams are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible for HDDs while continuing to drive lower $/TB - get to know the Ultrastar® DC HC330 10TB HDD.
July 18, 2019 • 4 min read Data
Pushing HPC Boundaries to Design Future Hard Drives
We set a high-performance computing (HPC) record with AWS by running 2.5 million tasks on 1 million cores. Here's what prompted it.
July 1, 2019 • 5 min read Data
What Does Helium Have to Do with the Black Hole Image?
In 2015, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project shared they would be using our (then HGST branded) Ultrastar® HelioSeal® hard disk drives (HDDs) to store the captured imaging data for the supermassive black hole.
April 11, 2019 • 5 min read Data