Western Digital is revealing today that it has actually started volume deliveries of its 24 TB hard disks based upon traditional magnetic recording (CMR) to its complete consumer base. In addition, the business began to increase production of its 28 TB HDDs including shingled magnetic recording (SMR) that will be utilized by choose clients.
The brand-new lineup of 3.5-inch 7200 RPM hard disks consists of Western Digital’s Ultrastar DC HC580 24 TB and WD Gold 24 TB HDDs, which are based upon the business’s energy-assisted perpendicular magnetic recording (ePMR) innovation. Both of these drives are even more improved with OptiNAND to enhance efficiency by saving repeatable runout (RRO) metadata on NAND memory (rather of on disks) and enhance dependability.
The business is likewise preparing their Ultrastar DC HC680 SMR 28 TB hard disk drive, which counts on shingled ePMR and OptiNAND.
When it concerns efficiency, the brand-new hard disks are a little bit much faster than predecessors due to greater areal density. On the other hand, per-TB power performance of Western Digital’s 24 TB and 28 TB HDDs is around 10% – 12% greater than that of 22 TB and 26 TB drives, respectively, due to greater capability and basically the very same power intake. For CSPs and hyperscalers, the primary worth benefit of the brand-new 24 TB drives is their greater capability, which allows approximately 612 TB of raw storage per rack utilizing 102-bay 4U chassis.
All 3 designs include 10 plates and mainly re-use the business’s existing enterprise-grade platform for multi-drive environments, which was presented over a year back. The platform generally includes a leading and bottom connected motor along with recreational vehicle sensing units to guarantee constant efficiency in vibrating multi-HDD chassis. The current Ultrastar HDDs are typically being targeted at cloud provider, hyperscalers, and big business, whereas WD Gold are going mainly to VARs, business, enterprise-grade NAS, and small companies that require to keep loads of information.
Western Digital is delivering WD Gold 24 TB hard disks through their circulation channel, so anticipate them to strike the marketplace soon. The Ultrastar DC HC680 and HC580 HDDs are now in the certification stage with choose CSPs, hyperscalers, and OEMs. They are likewise readily available for business that release these gadgets internally. It appears like WD is simply delivering the SATA variations of these drives at first, as the business is separating keeping in mind that that the SAS variations of the Ultrastar DC HC680 and HC580 HDD will be readily available in the very first quarter of 2024.
” With these brand-new offerings, Western Digital is when again showing that hard disks are not simply keeping up, they are creating a course forward, making sure that data-intensive applications these days and tomorrow have a strong structure to construct on while the market gets ready for HAMR,” stated Ed Burns, research study director of HDD and storage innovations at IDC. “We are seeing strong momentum for Western Digital’s SMR HDDs and think that SMR adoption will continue to grow as their brand-new 28TB SMR HDD uses the next engaging TCO worth proposal that cloud clients can not overlook.”