Reimagining the HDD for Exponential Data Growth Hyperscale cloud, CSPs, enterprises, smart video surveillance partners, NAS suppliers and more, need storage solutions to meet the exponential growth in data creation. When it comes to cost-effective storage of data at scale, hard disk drives (HDDs) continue to play a central role. IDC projects that in 2025, HDDs will represent 82% of storage capacity sold to the enterprise market. HDDs deliver the capacity, performance, and reliability needed to store vast amounts of data today and well into the future. Investments in HDD technology remain critical to supporting worldwide data growth. Western Digital has developed flash-enhanced drives with OptiNAND technology by vertically integrating the companys leading NAND flash with its world-class HDDs. Western Digital HDDs have been leaders in areal density with industry first technologies of energy-assisted magnetic recording technology (EAMR), triple-stage actuator (TSA), HelioSeal, and now OptiNAND technology. Higher areal density means higher capacities to meet storage challenges.
Product Highlights
- 20TB capacity in a standard 3.5-inch form factor
- ePMR & CMR technology works with all capacity enterprise applications & environments
- OptiNAND for highest capacities
- Reliable, field-proven, 7th generation HelioSeal design delivers outstanding power efficiency
- Industry-leading HDD technologies; OptiNAND, EAMR, TSA, HelioSeal
- 2.5M hours (projected) MTBF rating
- Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) options
Applications
- Cloud and hyperscale storage
- Massive scale-out (MSO), high-density data centers
- Distributed file systems
- Bulk storage using object storage solutions like Ceph and OpenStack Swift
- Primary and secondary storage for Apache Hadoop for big data analytics