HDD
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
Making Host Managed SMR Work for You – Dropbox’s Successful Journey
Organizations are looking for new, cost-effective mass storage solutions to help them contend with the onslaught of data. Innovations such as helium-sealed drives take advantage of lower internal atmospheric density to enable additional, thinner disks for higher capacities, while Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) hard drives overlap data tracks to achieve greater storage density. The first […]
June 12, 2018 • 5 min read Data
Western Digital Unveils New Addition: 8TB Ultrastar® DC HC320
We are now shipping the latest product in our capacity enterprise HDD product line, the 8TB Ultrastar® DC HC320, providing a new high capacity point in our lower capacity lineup of air-based products. As part of the unification of our new Western Digital brand, the Ultrastar DC HC320 is being introduced under the Western Digital […]
March 15, 2018 • 3 min read Data
Optimizing Your Storage Spaces Direct Configuration
In this blog series, Peter Plamondon will be sharing helpful, broad guidelines on how to optimize your Storage Spaces Direct configuration and avoid common pitfalls.
January 26, 2018 • 5 min read Data
Ultrastar® 7K6: More Data, Fewer Disks
Western Digital eliminates platters to deliver better value! Even with Western Digital’s advancements in the SSD business, we remain committed to the value we can deliver with drives based on spinning media. Our latest enterprise-class hard disk drive (HDD), the Ultrastar 7K6, leverages improved areal density to provide the same capacity as the previous generation […]
January 10, 2018 • 3 min read Data
Datascape: Cyber Daze
Cyber Monday, Alibaba Singles Day, Amazon Prime Day, Black Friday, Holiday Online Shopping. Let me boil it down into two words: Cyber Daze. It is worse (and better) than you think. Cyber Monday has morphed from one day into two full months with sales that will surpass $100B according to Adobe’s reckoning. To put this […]
November 29, 2017 • 5 min read Data
How We Made Our MAMR Technology Breakthrough
The announcement of our breakthrough in MAMR technology has stunned the industry. Getting there was not easy. Lenny Sharp shares a behind the scenes look at our path to innovation.
October 20, 2017 • 5 min read Data
Driving the Next Decade of Data Technology Innovations
Flash memory and capacity HDD will continue to coexist, with Western Digital well positioned across the full spectrum of opportunities. “We’re in a strong position to define the future of data-centric compute architectures.” — Mike Cordano As the scale of data continues to increase through Big Data and Fast Data demands, and the diversity of […]
October 11, 2017 • 1 min read Data
A Proven Leader – Our Track Record of Delivering on Innovation
With over 7000 patents in hard drive technology, we have the most powerful storage patent portfolio and are the undisputed units-shipped leader in HDDs. “We plan to deliver the first MAMR hard drive in 2019 to launch a new era.” — Brendan Collins Western Digital has a long, successful heritage in hard drive innovation having […]
October 11, 2017 • 1 min read Data