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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
Five Hard Drive Technologies Making Big Data Possible
Hard drives have been around a long time and maybe because of that they don't seem to be as exciting as SSDs. Even after 60 years, though, hard drives are still advancing by great leaps. This is the first of a series of blogs detailing upcoming technologies that Western Digital is planning to deliver to customers to enable the next 60 years of hard drives. We’re going to look at technologies to allow hard drives to store more data, revolutionary hardware designs that dramatically improve hard drive performance, and advanced methods of enabling better use of those faster, denser hard drives in cloud data centers. But before we look to the future, let's review where we are today. Here are five technologies you might not know about but which are powering leading enterprise hard drives such as the 14TB Ultrastar DC HC530 and 15TB Ultrastar DC HS620 used in many cloud data centers today.
March 4, 2019 • 5 min read Data
Your Data Infrastructure Deserves Better Storage Enclosures
Starting storage server design from the ground up allowed us to rethink a few design elements. Here's how we managed to reduce drive vibration by up to 63%.
February 13, 2019 • 5 min read Data
Maximizing TCO Savings with High Capacity Hard Drives
Whether you’re building the next big hyperscale app or managing a 4-node cluster, reducing costs is key to scaling. Here are the key TCO Principals to help you maximize savings with high-capacity hard drives.
December 12, 2018 • 7 min read Data
How Helium Powers Our New Generation of 14TB HDDs
Drive technology has advanced at an incredible cadence. From helium sealing to Two Dimensional Magnetic Recording, here are some of the scientific advancements that enable our latest generation of 14TB HDDs.
December 12, 2018 • 6 min read Data
Introducing the New WesternDigital.com
This morning we launched a fully redesigned westerndigital.com—and it’s more than a visual makeover. This new site truly reflects who Western Digital is today. If you have been witness to Western Digital for the past six years, you might be familiar with our journey. We have made some notable acquisitions with HGST, SanDisk and Tegile. […]
November 12, 2018 • 3 min read People
In-Memory Computing at Scale? Look Beyond Physical DRAM
Western Digital announces its entry into the in-memory computing market with the Ultrastar DC ME200 Memory Extension Drive. This memory drive leverages Western Digital data infrastructure leadership and NVMe technology to augment physical DRAM by creating virtual memory pools.
November 12, 2018 • 5 min read Data
15TB HDD – Taking Big Data Capacity to the Next Level
Western Digital announces our 15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 Host-Managed SMR HDD. This technological achievement in Western Digital’s Ultrastar shingled magnetic recording and helium-sealed enterprise-class HDD provides the continued basis for rack-scale data growth expansion and improved TCO, helping to tackle critical challenges of big data growth.
October 24, 2018 • 7 min read Data
What is Symbiotics Design™?
The Symbiotics Design™ approach is an integrated approach to our complete technology portfolio, allowing us to create increasingly specialized environments for data to thrive, whether it’s the immediate results from Fast Data or the breakthrough insights and precision from Big Data. Our products and solutions are purpose-built, tuned and optimized for a full range of data-centric applications.
June 28, 2018 • 4 min read Data