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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
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
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
Dynamic Hybrid SMR
Introducing a new architecture that allows SMR-HDD users the ability to balance between capacity and performance.
November 13, 2017 • 3 min read Data
Pushing Data Center Capacity to New Heights with the Ultrastar Hs14
How we implemented Host Managed SMR with helium technology to provide industry leading 14TB* hard disk drives!
October 3, 2017 • 3 min read Data