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Western Digital Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Transition to NVMe with New WD Gold NVMe SSDs
New WD Gold Enterprise-class NVMe SSDs Designed to Dramatically Improve Application Responsiveness and Performance News highlights: With the industry
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nNew WD Gold Enterprise-class NVMe SSDs Designed to Dramatically Improve Application Responsiveness and Performance\n\n\nNews highlights:\n\n\n\nWith the industry transitioning to NVMe, the new WD Gold NVMe SSDs enable SME data centers to improve application responsiveness, lower TCO and accelerate time to business decisions\n\n\nDelivering up to 5x sequential performance compared to enterprise SATA SSDs, WD Gold NVMe SSDs help enterprise infrastructures scale to peak demand for applications such as business intelligence, data analytics, virtualization and ERP, while delivering peace-of-mind with high reliability\n\n\nWith its own NAND flash, purpose-built firmware and in-house integrated controller, Western Digital demonstrates silicon-to-system expertise and leverages its expansive distribution channel to empower a broad set of customers to easily transition to NVMe technology\n\n\n SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nWestern Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) is enabling small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to easily transition to NVMe™ storage and dramatically improve application performance with a new addition to its portfolio of data center NVMe SSDs: the first enterprise-class NVMe SSD in the WD Gold™ family.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200304005094/en/Western Digital Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises in Transition to NVMe with New WD Gold NVMe SSDs (Photo: Business Wire)\n\nIndustry analyst firm IDC expects NVMe unit shipments to reach more than 79 percent of the market by 20231. With advancements in multi-core, multi-threaded CPUs, legacy storage technology has become a bottleneck to maximum application performance.\n\n\nShipping in early CQ2 2020, the new WD Gold NVMe SSDs will be available in four capacities to channel partners and end customers. The WD Gold NVMe SSD is designed to be the primary storage in servers delivering superior response times, higher throughput and greater scale than existing SATA devices for enterprise applications. WD Gold NVMe SSDs complement recently launched WD Gold HDDs by providing a high-performance storage tier for applications and data sets that requires low latency or high throughput.\n\n\nThe new WD Gold NVMe SSDs are designed with Western Digital’s silicon-to-system expertise, from its 3D TLC NAND SSD...