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Western Digital Expands Enterprise Hard Drive – Offers For Big Data Environments

by Raja IdrisJanuary 19, 2018
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Western Digital are expending their portfolio of enterprise with a new mid-range series of 4TB, 6TB, and 8TB air-based hard drives, namely the Ultrastar 7K6 as well as Ultrastar 7K8.

Western Digital Mid-range Enterprise Expansion

Ultrastar 7K6 and 7K8

Western Digital Expands Enterprise Hard Drive - Offers For Big Data Environments 21With the new expansion, the new products enable corporate data centers to have data set sizes smaller than found in hyperscale environments, allowing the ability to harness data across a broad scope of Big Data applications such as analytics and distributed file systems.

The company features 10TB, 12TB, and 14TB drives that features their HelioSeal helium-sealing technology perfect for hyperscale and cloud environments and to deliver the lowest possible TCO.

Loads of applications have small data sets or benefit from optimal performance from implementation of a cluster of lower capacity, air-based drives.

Most conventional data center systems still rely on moderate capacity points for RAID-based block-and-file systems. According to the company’s Vice President, today’s mid-range applications are now moving from smaller configurations to even bigger capacities and understandably of why.

For this, comes the new Ultrastar 7K6 and 7K8. With the 7K6, its supports 4TB and 6TB capacity points, which utilizes a 4-disk, enterprise class, air-based design. It provides up to 12% faster performance than the previous generation, the Ultrastar 7K6000, and is designed for traditional storage as well as server applications plus distributed and scalable computing.

On the other hand, the Ultrastar 7K8 8TB solution will be released later in this quarter. The 4TB, 6TB, and 8TB capcity will be ready for volume ramp during the second calendar quarter of 2018. For improved write performance, they’ve implemented their media cache and flash-based non-volatile cache (NVC).

Pokdepinion: As technology goes further and further, it’s not a surprise that enterprises would get and need of storage upgrades such as this as requirements go bigger and bigger day by day.

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