SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Helping the
world harness the power of data, Western Digital Corporation
(NASDAQ: WDC), today announced that it is now shipping the world's
first 10TB perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) hard disk drive
(HDD). As the first 10TB drop-in ready HDD, the HGST Ultrastar He10
HDD provides the highest capacity, lowest power consumption per TB
and the highest reliability rating of all HDDs on the market. This
is WDC's third-generation helium drive, which defines the best
enterprise-capacity hard drive in the industry.
The Ultrastar He10 HDD is the fundamental building block to
address growing data needs. WDC expects its 10TB drives to be a key
enabler of video, photo, business and other cloud-based
applications, and will be a cornerstone for public and private
cloud deployments moving forward.
Essential for creating high-density storage solutions, the
Ultrastar He10 offers a 25% increase in capacity over the previous
generation and uses 56% fewer watts/TB than traditional air-filled
HDDs, allowing data center architects to achieve new levels of
eco-environmental efficiency. The Ultrastar He10 also continues
HGST's best-in-class reliability standards, offering a 2.5 million
mean-time-between-failures rating as well as a five-year warranty.
It is available to all enterprise customers as a bare drive, and
will be available in HGST's Active Archive System for customers
that require a petabyte-scale object storage system.
"Our HelioSeal platform has defied next-generation expectations
around capacity, reliability and power in HDDs," said Brendan Collins, vice president of product
marketing, HGST. "We were the first to recognize the benefits of
Helium and have pushed the boundaries while others are scrambling
to catch up. The Ultrastar He10 represents the third generation of
our HelioSeal line. It redefines enterprise capacity HDDs, showing
the industry where storage devices need to go, to stay in front of
the future that data growth is hurtling towards."
"Netflix has built an industry-leading Content Delivery Network
and these 10TB drives will allow us to quickly integrate, build
more capacity and stream more movies to our consumers," said
David Fullagar, director of content
delivery architecture, Netflix. "We've been using the HGST
HelioSeal drives for a long time and not only do they give us more
capacity, they have contributed to a lower overall power envelope
and higher storage density, which has allowed us to maximize our
data footprint and create a network that is optimized for TCO."
"We're living in a trillions of sensors world, and the more data
history we have, the better. Our ability to process data at scale
with a low dollar per terabyte, the industry is well positioned to
leverage IoT and sensor technology to build safer and smarter
cities, improve homeland security, and enable customers to gain a
competitive advantage with data," said Blair Barbour, president and CEO,
Photon-X. "HGST is pushing the boundaries with capacity in
devices and systems, creating an innovation inflection point in the
world of IoT."
"HGST continues to lead the industry in delivering the next
highest capacity hard drive for enterprise applications, beginning
with 4TB, then 6TB, 8TB, and now 10TB capacity-optimized enterprise
HDDs," according to John Rydning,
IDC's research vice president. "HGST's new Ultrastar 10TB He10 will
help address the need for higher capacity, and higher density
storage racks in enterprise datacenters."
For more information on the Ultrastar He10 HDD,
http://www.hgst.com/products/hard-drives/ultrastar-he10.
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About Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital
Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) is an industry-leading developer and
manufacturer of storage solutions that enable people to create,
leverage, experience and preserve data. The company addresses
ever-changing market needs by providing a full portfolio of
compelling, high-quality storage solutions with effective
technology deployment, high efficiency, flexibility and speed. Our
products are marketed under the HGST and WD brands to OEMs,
distributors, resellers, cloud infrastructure providers and
consumers. For more information, please visit www.hgst.com and
www.wd.com.
About HGST
HGST (@HGSTStorage)-branded storage
solutions power the markets and companies that shape our
lives—enabling possibilities for the cloud, enterprise and
sophisticated infrastructures everywhere. For more information,
please visit www.hgst.com.
One GB is equal to one billion bytes and one TB equals 1,000 GB
(one trillion bytes). One PB is equal to 1,000 TB (one quadrillion
bytes). Actual capacity will vary depending on operating
environment and formatting. Usable capacity will vary
from the raw capacity due to object storage methodologies and other
factors.
HelioSeal and Long Live Data are trademarks, and Ultrastar is a
registered trademark of Western Digital Corporation and its
Affiliates in the United States
and/or other countries. All other trademarks are properties of
their respective owners.
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