Cost-Effective,
High Capacity, Low Power Drive Validated in WD’s Real-World Hadoop® Environment;
also Ideal for SMB and Mid-Sized NAS Deployments
WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company
and world leader for storage deployed in datacenters, today announced availability of its innovative WD Se™ line of hard drives, the first designed for scale-out datacenter
deployments. Built on an enterprise-grade platform for reliable 24x7x365
datacenter operation, WD Se is tailored to deliver the right combination of
performance, reliability and robustness for large-scale replicated
environments, mid-sized network attached storage (NAS) deployment, and backup/archiving
applications.
WD Se is
a true enterprise-class drive with the right blend of affordability and
capabilities to address the massive growth of semi-structured data, which is
accelerating the scale-out of datacenters of all sizes. Now shipping in capacities
up to 4 TB, the new WD Se hard drives enables customers to balance their data
growth challenges in multi-drive enclosures without compromising
enterprise-class features.
“Today’s cloud
datacenter installations require a cost-effective way to build large-scale
storage systems, while maintaining the 24x7 reliability necessary to minimize
total cost of ownership,” said Richard E. Rutledge, senior vice president of
WD’s datacenter storage business unit. “WD’s utilization of vast amounts of
manufacturing and engineering data has forced us – like many other companies –
to use map-reduce methodologies to effectively analyze our data. The WD Se
hard drives are used in our own big datacenter, where we have gained real-world
experience with Apache™ Hadoop®.”
WD Se drives also
address the fast-growing SMB to mid-range network-attached storage (NAS)
market. The robust enterprise-class design and higher workload capabilities for
SMB-focused 6-bay-plus table-top NAS units and rack-mount multi-tenant NAS
solutions with up to 24 bays, provide NAS integrators a complement to WD Red™
hard drives, which are for small NAS systems. WD’s other datacenter hard drives
– WD Xe™ and WD Re™ – round out the high-end of the NAS
market, offering higher durability and performance for large-scale rack-based
NAS systems. Together, WD Se, WD Xe, WD Re and WD Red™ provide a total
portfolio of robust storage devices to match every size and scale of NAS
deployment.
In addition to
undergoing at least 5,000,000 hours of functional and thermal testing and over
20,000,000 hours of additional testing under actual workloads in server and
storage systems, WD’s Se hard drives feature:
·
A dual processor
for twice the processing power to maximize performance;
·
Enhanced Rotary
Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF™) technology that includes sophisticated
electronics to monitor the drive and correct both linear and rotational
vibration in real time;
·
Dual actuator
technology improves head positional accuracy over the data track(s);
·
StableTrac™ whereby
the motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and
stabilize platters for accurate tracking during read and write operations
delivering a consistent level of performance for applications;
·
Multi-axis shock
sensor automatically detects the subtlest shock events and compensates to
protect the data;
·
RAID-specific,
time-limited error recovery (TLER) prevents drive fallout caused by the
extended hard drive error-recovery processes common to desktop drives, and;
·
Dynamic fly
height technology where each read-write head’s fly height is adjusted in real
time for optimum reliability.
Price and Availability
WD’s Se
hard drives, shipping in capacities from 2 TB to 4 TB, (models: WD2000F9YZ,
WD3000F9YZ, and WD4000F9YZ) are available through select distributors and
resellers. Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) for the WD Se hard
drives range from PHP 7990 to PHP 14, 990. WD’s Se drives are covered by a
five-year limited warranty. More
information about WD’s Se enterprise hard drives may be found on the company's
website at http://www.wd.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1050.
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