SSD
WD Red NAS SSDs Boost NAS Performance in Home and Work Offices
Our WD Red NAS SATA SSD gives a huge boost to NAS SOHO applications. These drives are designed specifically for caching through tiered data storage. If a low number of writes and non-continuous sustained performance is needed, however, full flash applications are feasible.
January 23, 2020 • 6 min read Data
With Vertical Integration, Our ASIC Platform Defines Future Products
We used vertical integration to develop in-house internal controllers that enable better quality, lower cost, and more flexibility in our product portfolio.
January 22, 2020 • 6 min read People
The NVMe SSD Successor for WD Blue SN500 Has Arrived
For content creators and PC users looking for an all-NVMe solution, the WD Blue SN550 is a powerful option, leveraging technology from our proven NVMe product portfolio in a slim M.2 2280 form factor with boosted internal speeds.
December 17, 2019 • 3 min read Data
2019 Data Center Year in Review
A year-end recap of digital use cases, vertical applications, and cloud architecture options for your perusal, matched with the key Western Digital product and technological announcements we made throughout the year.
December 16, 2019 • 8 min read Data
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 Latest from WD_BLACK: Performance Drives, Purpose-Built for Gaming
Gamers often feel the pain of deciding which old games to delete in order to make room for new favorites. WD_BLACK enables the gaming world to solve these challenges and more.
September 11, 2019 • 5 min read Data
Data @ the Center of VMworld – What You Should See
VMworld 2019 is just around the corner! Here's what you should be on the lookout for at the show.
August 21, 2019 • 5 min read Data
5 Data Center Trends Driving the Next Generation of NVMe™ SSDs
Emerging technologies are dependent on massive data streams. Here are 5 key trends driving the next generation of NVMe SSDs in data centers and the cloud.
August 5, 2019 • 8 min read Data
Reshaping the Cloud and Edge with NVMe™ Innovations
The dual goals of supporting data volume and speed are driving new storage architectures in cloud and edge data centers. Here’s how our latest NVMe innovations leverage unique in-house technology design to deliver capabilities otherwise not possible, and give customers more choice.
February 26, 2019 • 5 min read Data
The Ultrastar® Memory Drive – How Our Memory Extension Drive Works
Cloud architects, digital platform stakeholders, and the HPC user community may use the Ultrastar memory drive to scale memory pools for real-time analytics, scientific workloads, and addition memory-demanding workloads. In this blog, I will show you the step-by-step boot process for a Linux environment and the availability of Ultrastar memory drive “virtualized memory pools” for use by in-memory workloads.
December 21, 2018 • 4 min read Data