SAS
SAS Lives On and Here’s Why
The Ultrastar DC SS540 SAS SSDs are our 6th generation of SAS SSDs and are the ideal drives for all-flash arrays, caching tiers, HPC and SDS environments.
November 4, 2019 • 3 min read Data
The Tech Enabling the MMO Gaming Experience
MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) Gaming is big business. In 2017, an estimated $30 billion USD was spent on MMO gaming. That number is projected to grow even further. Players located across the globe simultaneously interact with these MMO games, including Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs). Using their own computers, players access these games via their Internet […]
September 11, 2018 • 5 min read Data
Scale with Confidence: Ultrastar DC SS530 SAS SSDs
Western Digital is excited to announce the new Ultrastar® DC SS530 SAS SSD, our company’s highest-density drive and the fastest dual-port SAS SSD on the market. The Ultrastar DC SS530 doubles the maximum capacity compared to the prior-generation SAS SSD to a whopping 15.36TB1. Its performance sets new industry records among SAS SSDs with up […]
July 25, 2018 • 5 min read Data
The Ultrastar® SS300 – Our Highest-Performing SAS SSD to Date
The Ultrastar® SS300 is the newest generation of our popular SAS SSD, integrating advanced controller technology with 3D NAND to power the most challenging workloads with greater efficiency.
May 16, 2017 • 3 min read Data
SanDisk® Lightning SSD Now Oracle Solaris and SPARC Server Compatible
One easy and transparent way to improve I/O performance and reliability of any computing platform is to replace or augment existing spinning disk drives with SSDs. But SSDs are not a ‘one size fits all’ solution. There are plentiful choices, and not all are created equal. Due to the diversity in components and variations in […]
April 29, 2015 • 4 min read Data
Speeds, Feeds and Needs – Understanding SSD Endurance
It's simple to think flash is flash, but it's not all created equal. Learn how SSD endurance affects the life expectancy and costs of your enterprise SSD.
January 13, 2015 • 7 min read Data
Does Storage break Moore’s Law?
Over the years an exponential gap has grown between the advancements of CPU and memory, and what storage can handle. Hard drive performance is the laggard by simply being too slow.
July 22, 2014 • 5 min read Data