Western Digital Sets New Standard with Latest Generation in Popular HGST-Brand Ultrastar SAS SSD Family
May 16 2017 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Ultrastar SS300 12Gb/s SAS SSD Delivers
Class-Leading Performance
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), a global data storage
technology and solutions leader, today announced the HGST-branded
Ultrastar® SS300, the company’s highest-performing SAS SSD to date.
It is the latest addition to the company’s family of Ultrastar
12Gb/s SAS SSDs, which are used to meet the rigorous data demands
of many of the world’s largest companies today. Developed in
partnership with Intel, the new Ultrastar SS300 delivers
best-in-class random performance, offering speeds of up to 400,000
IOPS random read and up to 200,000 IOPS random write1.
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“Today, we raise the bar with our newest 12Gb/s SAS SSD, the
Ultrastar SS300,” said Ulrich Hansen, vice president of SSD product
marketing at Western Digital. “Built with high-endurance 3D NAND
flash memory, the Ultrastar SS300 offers best-in-class speed,
outstanding capacity and intelligent power options that enable
customers to tailor storage systems and server solutions that are
just right for their demanding needs. These benefits are delivered
with the same tremendous reliability that has helped to make
Ultrastar 12Gb/s SAS SSDs popular around the globe.”
The Ultrastar SS300 is ideal for the intensive data demands of
virtualized storage systems, databases and private and hybrid cloud
environments. It offers capacities up to 7.68TB, giving data center
architects the potential to reduce the number of drives,
consolidate servers and open up valuable rack space. The new
Ultrastar SS300 is offered in a variety of endurance classes and
comes with a range of features and power settings. This includes a
14-watt power envelope that can unlock additional performance
capabilities and an ultra-low power setting for more efficient
energy consumption. With this variety of options and high capacity,
original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have a greater flexibility
to create next-generation data center storage systems that address
a wide variety of workloads and total cost of ownership (TCO)
requirements.
“The use of Intel technology in the Ultrastar SS300 12Gb/s SAS
SSD complements Western Digital’s commitment to offering
exceptional solutions to meet their customers’ needs,” said Bill
Leszinske, vice president of strategic planning, marketing and
business development at Intel Corporation. “Our long-standing
relationship with Western Digital to develop SAS SSDs has been very
productive, providing leadership solutions for the storage
community worldwide.”
Additional Ultrastar SS300 12Gb/s SAS SSD features and
specifications include:
- Sequential read and write speeds of up
to 2050 MB/s2
- Four endurance choices, from 0.5 to 10
drive writes per day
- Offers a choice of security options,
including Instant Secure Erase (ISE), Self-Encrypting Drive
(SED)-compliant with TCG Enterprise and SED-compliant with TCG
Enterprise with FIPS 140-2 certification
The Ultrastar SS300 SSD is currently shipping to OEM partners.
It joins Western Digital’s broad range of HGST-brand and
SanDisk-brand enterprise grade storage solutions, which includes
innovative helium enterprise hard disk drives as well as SAS, NVMe™
and SATA SSD solutions.
Additional product information can be found in the Ultrastar
SS300 SAS SSD datasheet.
Industry Perspective:
- “With the increasing volume and
velocity of data being generated every day, we felt it was crucial
to partner with a trusted leader in the SAS SSD market. This is why
Oracle chose the HGST-brand Ultrastar SS300 SAS SSD to deliver
next-generation hybrid and all-flash solutions for the data center.
Not only has the Ultrastar SS300 significantly improved performance
consistency and quality of service (QoS), but the capacity increase
also enabled a reduction in TCO.” – Ofer Michael, senior vice
president, Storage, Oracle
- “SAS SSD adoption continues to see
strong growth across a variety of critical enterprise applications.
Western Digital’s newest 12Gb/s SAS SSD, the Ultrastar SS300,
offers the optimum balance of performance, capacity and cost for
the most demanding workloads.” – Greg Wong, founder and principal
analyst, Forward Insights
About Western Digital
Western Digital is an industry-leading provider of storage
technologies and 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 customer-focused innovation,
high efficiency, flexibility and speed. Our products are marketed
under the HGST, SanDisk and WD brands to OEMs, distributors,
resellers, cloud infrastructure providers and consumers. Financial
and investor information is available on the company's Investor
Relations website at investor.wdc.com.
© 2017 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights
reserved. Western Digital, SanDisk, and Ultrastar are registered
trademarks or trademarks of Western Digital Corporation or its
affiliates in the US and/or other countries. Intel is a trademark
of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other
countries. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its
affiliates. The NVMe word mark is a registered trademark of NVM
Express, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective
owners.
1 – Based on internal testing results for 100% 4KiB random reads
or writes. Performance may vary by capacity point, or with changes
in useable capacity. Consult product manual for further details.2 –
Based on internal testing results for 100% 128KiB sequential reads
or writes. Performance may vary by capacity point, or with changes
in useable capacity. Consult product manual for further
details.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements
related to the Ultrastar SS300 solid-state drive, including its
expectations, development, timing for initial output, commercial
volume production, product sampling and shipment, capabilities,
performance improvements, applications, capacities and customers
that are based on current expectations. 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. You
should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking
statements, which speak only as of the date hereof, and the company
undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements
to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
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