archiveSSD

Software may have eaten the world but, thanks to DevOps’ focus on scalability and need for continuous deployment, containers are...

Western Digital is excited to announce the new Ultrastar® DC SS530 SAS SSD, our company’s highest-density drive and the fastest...

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.

The data surges caused by today’s IoT devices or big e-commerce promotions do not have to take us down! Businesses...

The world of gaming is changing dramatically. New technologies are bringing ultra-high resolutions, higher frame rates, computed virtual field of...

It’s not only performance that makes NVMe a game changer. NVMe also has some very innovative features that bring unique benefits to existing workloads and open possibilities for new applications. Here are 6 NVMe features you should be aware of.

Recipe for Success Thanks to the rapid growth of IoT and Edge Compute in recent years, Embedded World has become...

Today, Western Digital introduced a purpose-built SATA SSD for read-intensive workloads, typical in environments like content delivery networks (CDNs). But...

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.

Cyber Monday, Alibaba Singles Day, Amazon Prime Day, Black Friday, Holiday Online Shopping.  Let me boil it down into two...

Flash memory and capacity HDD will continue to coexist, with Western Digital well positioned across the full spectrum of opportunities....

Abandoning the decades-old SAS and SATA software protocol stacks, NVMe is the new kid on the block. Will it dominate the data warehouse workload space?

HDDs vs. SSDs - will any device lead the data storage space? Here’s a look at where we are and what’s awaiting us.

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.

While the cloud is all about elasticity, security and long-term data retention, it’s not the only place where storage is important. Devices at the edge will need local storage both for data capture and support of real-time analytics.

Flash drives many of the devices found in the automotive, Industrial IoT, and commercial markets. It’s no secret that flash powers...

From 5G becoming a reality to 1TB capacities in smartphones and edge-to-cloud storage, here are 3 key areas propelling data storage and the mobile industry.

Why overprovision an SSD? Overprovisioning with SanDisk X400 SSD can improve overall performance – higher throughput (IOPS) and lower latencies.

Smartphones and tablets capture a lot of people’s attention, but PCs still play an important role in people’s lives. Meaning SSDs are here to stay!

“We use SSDs because we want the win.” Joe Foley, CTO, Joe Gibbs Racing   In the world of motorsports,...

Since 2012, desktop and laptop PC sales have dropped by 25%, while sales of tablet and hybrid devices have climbed by 1,500%. Can the magic rub off on laptop sales?

SSDs provide the same function of storing your data and applications as a hard drive, but they do so via chips that have no moving parts and can be reduced down to a much smaller size.

The never-ending quest for more storage.

For being our first show as a unified Western Digital company, I’d call this Flash Memory Summit a success. Here's an overview of what you missed at the event.