Western Digital Unleashes New Era of Growth for Cloud Market With World’s First 22TB CMR and 26TB UltraSMR HDDs
May 09 2022 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
New Innovation Reduces TCO for Hyperscale Cloud
Customers and Accelerates Adoption of SMR
What’s Next Western Digital Event – Building on
significant technology innovations cultivated over decades, Western
Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that it is sampling its new
industry-leading 22TB¹ and 26TB UltraSMR HDDs to select hyperscale
cloud customers, further expanding its areal density leadership and
delivering customer value by driving TCO lower.
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Western Digital's 22TB Ultrastar DC HC570
HDD and 26TB DC HC670 UltraSMR HDD with OptiNAND technology.
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Western Digital’s HDD technology portfolio and areal density
leadership puts it at the center of storage innovation. Leveraging
its unique OptiNAND™ technology, energy-assisted PMR (ePMR),
triple-stage actuator (TSA), HelioSeal® and now UltraSMR
technologies, Western Digital is on a clear path to delivering 30+
TB with ePMR.
“As a longstanding partner of the industry’s leading cloud
providers, we understand their unique requirements in building
next-generation cloud infrastructure and invested in several HDD
innovations we developed alongside our areal density technology,”
said Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, EVP and GM, HDD Business Unit, Western
Digital. “Our intent with taking this development strategy was not
only to address the capacity demands of the world’s largest cloud
titans but to deliver on a roadmap that would also support the
evolving economics of their data centers for decades to come. With
ePMR, OptiNAND and now UltraSMR as the foundation of Western
Digital’s HDD roadmap, our cloud customers can continue rapidly
scaling their business by taking advantage of our innovations to
lower their storage TCO.”
OptiNAND, UltraSMR and ePMR Drive Cloud TCO Lower
The new ePMR drives leverage Western Digital’s OptiNAND
technology to unlock unprecedented levels of capacity, performance
and data resiliency. The 22TB CMR HDD incorporates OptiNAND to
deliver areal-density leadership on a mature 2.2TB/platter
HelioSeal platform with ten disks.
Combining OptiNAND with proprietary firmware that leverages HDD
system-level hardware advancements, Western Digital’s new UltraSMR
technology introduces large block encoding along with an advanced
error correction algorithm that increases tracks-per-inch (TPI) to
enable higher capacity. The result is Western Digital's new 26TB
Ultrastar® DC HC670 UltraSMR HDD that delivers 2.6TB per platter,
offering 18% more capacity for cloud customers optimizing their
stacks to take advantage of the benefits of SMR. With cloud service
providers increasingly adding SMR to their datacenter roadmaps, the
26TB capacity serves as a tipping point to accelerate adoption.
Uniquely capable with OptiNAND, the HDDs also include the
ArmorCache™ write cache data safety feature, which gives customers
the performance of write cache enable (WCE) combined with the data
protection of write cache disable (WCD) for added data protection
or resiliency in case of an emergency power off (EPO). For the
first time in HDD history, this Write Cache Data Safety feature
gives users both performance and data protection, no matter which
mode is selected. OptiNAND gives the drives a significant
performance increase also in WCD mode, which is greatest in random
writes with larger block transfers. At common HDD application
transfer lengths of 256KB or greater, IOPS and throughput improve
by more than 40% relative to a non-OptiNAND drives, with a peak
improvement of over 80% at 1MB transfer length. See the tech brief
here for more details.
22TB CMR and 26TB UltraSMR HDD Availability:
- The 22TB Ultrastar DC HC570 HDD and the new 26TB Ultrastar DC
HC670 UltraSMR HDD are now sampling to select hyperscale customers.
The DC HC570 HDD will begin volume shipments to the channel, and
the UltraSMR HDD will begin shipping to select customers in the
summer of 2022.
- The Ultrastar Data60and Data102JBODs will feature the new 22TB
CMR Ultrastar HDDs this summer, delivering the industry’s highest
storage density in a fully optimized platform for added durability
and data reliability for software-defined storage.
- Extending OptiNAND innovations across its HDD portfolio,
Western Digital will deliver 22TB WD Purple® Pro HDDs for smart
video/surveillance, WD Red® Pro HDDs for NAS solutions, and WD
Gold® HDDs for system integrators and resellers serving enterprises
and SMBs. These drives will be available this summer.
Resources
- Blog: What's Next: Western Digital Unveils Its Mission to
Unlock the Potential of Data
- Media Kit: What’s Next 2022 – Ultrastar 22TB CMR & 26TB
UltraSMR HDDs
About Western Digital
Western Digital is on a mission to unlock the potential of data
by harnessing the possibility to use it. With Flash and HDD
franchises, underpinned by advancements in memory technologies, we
create breakthrough innovations and powerful data storage solutions
that enable the world to actualize its aspirations. Core to our
values, we recognize the urgency to combat climate change and have
committed to ambitious carbon reduction goals approved by the
Science Based Targets initiative. Learn more about Western Digital
and the Western Digital®, SanDisk® and WD® brands at
www.westerndigital.com.
1One terabyte (TB) is equal to one trillion bytes and one
petabyte (PB) is equal to one thousand terabytes. Actual user
capacity may vary depending on operating environment.
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including statements regarding expectations for the available uses
and applications for the company’s products; expectations for the
availability and performance of the company’s products, and the
development of future products; and expectations for demand and
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strategic relationships; difficulties or delays in manufacturing or
other supply chain disruptions; hiring and retention of key
employees; our substantial level of debt and other financial
obligations; changes to our relationships with key customers;
disruptions in operations from cyberattacks or other system
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Erin Hartin Western Digital Public Relations 1-303-601-8035
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T. Peter Andrew Western Digital Investor Relations
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