New 14TB HelioSeal® Design
Boosts Quality, Reliability, Power Efficiency and Added Robustness
to Enable an Environment for Big Data to Thrive
Enabling new lower levels of total cost of ownership (TCO) for
cloud and enterprise customers, Western Digital Corporation
(NASDAQ: WDC) today introduced the Ultrastar® DC HC530 hard drive –
at 14TB, no other CMR (conventional magnetic recording) hard drive
in the industry offers a higher capacity. The breadth and depth of
big data is driving the universal need for higher capacities across
a broad spectrum of applications and workloads. 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.
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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, 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. Since 2014, the company’s
unique, patented HelioSeal process seals helium in the drive to
provide unbeatable capacity, exceptional power efficiency and
long-term data center reliability. Its low-power design does not
compromise performance, while contributing to its overall TCO
advantages. Both SAS and SATA interfaces will be available.
Tencent, a leading global Internet service provider based in
China is adopting Western Digital’s HelioSeal-based hard drives for
their Tencent Cloud data centers. Huang Bing Qi, director of
Tencent Cloud, said, “As the volume of data continues to expand,
our customers look to us to provide speed, agility and longevity
for a variety of applications, workloads and outcomes. Western
Digital’s helium-filled HDDs provide the low-power and
high-capacity we need to meet these demands in a cost-efficient and
reliable manner. Tencent Cloud has already deployed 12TB HelioSeal
HDDs and we are excited to work with Western Digital to qualify the
new 14TB Ultrastar DC HC530 drives.”
Features and Specifications
- HelioSeal: Western Digital’s fifth
generation helium-based drives, based on the exclusive HelioSeal
technology
- Available with either 12Gb/s SAS or
6Gb/s SATA interface
- Two Dimensional Magnetic Recording
(TDMR) and improved Dual Stage Micro Actuator provides optimal head
positioning and rotational vibration robustness
- Data Protection: Helps protect end user
data with encryption (Self Encrypting Drive)
- Reliability: Amongst the industry’s
highest MTBF rating at 2.5M hours and comes with a 5-year limited
warranty
Availability
The Ultrastar DC HC530 14TB HDD is currently shipping to select
hyperscale cloud customers for qualification. Limited qualification
samples are available now to qualified customers. For more
information on the Ultrastar DC HC530 14TB drive,
visit: http://www.hgst.com/products/hard-drives/ultrastar-dc-hc530.
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.
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About Western Digital
Western Digital creates environments for data to thrive. The
company is driving the innovation needed to help customers capture,
preserve, access and transform an ever-increasing diversity of
data. Everywhere data lives, from advanced data centers to mobile
sensors to personal devices, our industry-leading solutions deliver
the possibilities of data. Western Digital® data-centric solutions
are marketed under the G-Technology™, HGST, SanDisk®, Tegile™,
Upthere™, and WD® brands.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including statements concerning the development, performance and
capacity, capabilities, applications, and availability of the 14TB
Ultrastar Helium HDD, the HelioSeal platform, the Ultrastar Data102
and Data60 data center platforms and adoption of our products by
customers. There are a number of risks and uncertainties that may
cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate including,
among others: volatility in global economic conditions; business
conditions and growth in the storage ecosystem; impact of
competitive products and pricing; market acceptance and cost of
commodity materials and specialized product components; actions by
competitors; unexpected advances in competing technologies; our
development and introduction of products based on new technologies
and expansion into new data storage markets; risks associated with
acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures; difficulties or delays in
manufacturing; and other risks and uncertainties listed in the
company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission,,
including our most recently filed periodic report to which your
attention is directed. The company undertakes no obligation to
update the information in this release in the event facts or
circumstances change after the date of this release.
© 2018 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights
reserved. Western Digital, the Western Digital logo, G-Technology,
SanDisk, Tegile, Upthere, WD, HelioSeal, and Ultrastar are
registered trademarks or trademarks of Western Digital Corporation
or its affiliates in the US and/or other countries. All other marks
are the property of their respective owners.
As used for storage capacity, one terabyte (TB) = one trillion
bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating
environment. Product specifications subject to change without
notice. Not all products are available in all regions of the
world.
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