Western Digital recently introduced its latest 14TB hard disk drive, Ultrastar DC HC530, offering new lower levels of total cost of ownership (TCO) for cloud and enterprise data centers customers. The Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC530 drive is also the world’s highest capacity CMR (conventional magnetic recording) hard drive.
The new drive is built on Western Digital’s fifth-generation HelioSeal technology, the Ultrastar DC HC530 drive is designed for public and private cloud environments where storage density, watt/TB and $/TB are critical parameters for creating the most cost-efficient infrastructure.
The data explosion caused by big data, IoT, artificial intelligence, machine learning, rich content and fast data applications is challenging hyperscale cloud data centers and enterprises to efficiently build massive petabyte-scale infrastructures. This ability to cost-effectively scale-up or scale-out is business critical, not only for cloud service providers but for organizations leveraging big data analytics and machine learning in medical, science, agriculture and other fields seeking innovation, discoveries and unique insights, as well as for creating new business models.
Brendan Collins, vice president of marketing, Devices at Western Digital, said, “Our enterprise and hyperscale cloud customers demand reliability with the highest capacities and densities to deliver the lowest TCO for business-critical applications. Having invented, brought to market and delivered five generations of industry-leading innovations in helium technology, and with more than 27 million drives shipped, our ability to maintain high quality and reliability have made us the trusted partner of top-tier cloud providers, Internet giants and OEMs around the world.”
A follow-on to the industry’s first 14TB SMR (shingled magnetic recording) drive, the Ultrastar DC HC530 is a 14TB CMR drive that delivers drop-in simplicity for random write workloads in enterprise and cloud data centers.
The Ultrastar DC HC530 drives will also be available in the company’s high-density data center platforms designed for next‑generation disaggregated storage and software-defined storage (SDS) systems. And, the new 14TB HDD are currently shipped to select hyperscale cloud customers for qualification. Limited qualification samples are available now to qualified customers.
