The New 15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 HDD Is Available For Enterprises

New 15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 HDD Is Out

In late October 2018, the famous provider of storage solutions – Western Digital – has announced a new HDD: the 15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 HDD; this is a host-managed hard disk drive integrated with SMR technology and believed to be the industry’s highest capacity HDD. By doing so, the continued strength and leadership of Western Digital in the aspect of enterprise-capacity storage solutions has been reinforced.

For people who have invested in and will continue to enjoy the benefits brought by SMR, this new host-managed SMR HDD is a good choice.

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Advantages

• It provides an unparalleled capacity point with a time-to-market advantage.
• It improves the areal density and lowers the TCO for scale-out cloud as well as enterprise data center customers.
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A fully populated 4U60 HDD enclosure can realize the raw storage capacity of 900TB since it enables the world’s densest server & storage systems and combines the 15TB HDDs. When compared to the one which adopts 14TB HDDs, it gets an additional 60TB per 4U rack in the same footprint.

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The following factors are very important in an at-scale environment:

• $/TB
• TB per square foot
• Watts per terabyte
• Floor space

This plays an important role in the TCO (total cost of ownership) savings.

Storage

The 15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 hard disk drive sets a new bar for TCO and it is especially suitable for the hyperscale cloud and traditional data center workloads. The following storage schemes are included:

• Big data storage
• Storage for regulatory compliance
• Large video surveillance “smart city” initiatives

The enterprise-class 15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 HDD with host-managed SMR well reflects another industry first and it helps to continue the Western Digital’s tradition of providing enterprise-class HDDs with the highest hard drive capacity. It is based on the proven HelioSeal® platform of Western Digital and has been considered as an extension to the industry’s first 14TB SMR HDD family. What’s Western Digital doing later this quarter is – shipping the Ultrastar DC HC620 qualification samples to select users with a broader availability.

As a result, the new Ultrastar DC HC620 HDD helps a lot to further enlarge the broad range of enterprise-class storage solutions of Western Digital. The following devices are included:

• SAS and SATA SSDs
• High-performance NVMe™ SSD devices
• Innovative HelioSeal® enterprise-class hard disk drives

The ActiveScale™, OpenFlex™, IntelliFlash™, and servers & platforms of Ultrastar® storage are part of Western Digital’s data center systems.

Western Digital: the Enterprise-Capacity Storage Leader

Western Digital Corporation is a computer hard disk drive manufacturer and data storage company located in America.

Western Digital has been devoting itself to do the following things:

• Design, manufacture and sell data technology products
• Drive the innovation needed to help people capture, preserve, access, and transform the diverse data involved in modern life.

Its industry-leading solutions offer the possibilities of data everywhere, from the personal devices and mobile sensors to even advanced data centers.

Expert’s Words

With data continuing to grow at unprecedented rates, many hyperscale and cloud storage customers know that their workloads trend toward data that is written sequentially. In these instances, customers are optimizing their infrastructures with the lowest TCO and the maximum capacity. By capitalizing on our highest-capacity SMR storage solutions, our customers’ investment can not only be fully leveraged today, but for subsequent generations of SMR areal density improvements for continued infrastructure optimization.– said Eyal Bek, vice president of product marketing, Western Digital.