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Western Digital Unleashes New Era of Growth for Cloud Market With World’s First 22TB CMR and 26TB UltraSMR HDDs
New Innovation Reduces TCO for Hyperscale Cloud Customers and Accelerates Adoption of SMR SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- What’s Next Western Digital Event
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nNew Innovation Reduces TCO for Hyperscale Cloud Customers and Accelerates Adoption of SMR\n\n SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nWhat’s Next Western Digital Event – Building on significant technology innovations cultivated over decades, Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that it is sampling its new industry-leading 22TB¹ and 26TB UltraSMR HDDs to select hyperscale cloud customers, further expanding its areal density leadership and delivering customer value by driving TCO lower.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220509005151/en/Western Digital's 22TB Ultrastar DC HC570 HDD and 26TB DC HC670 UltraSMR HDD with OptiNAND technology. (Photo: Business Wire)\nWestern Digital’s HDD technology portfolio and areal density leadership puts it at the center of storage innovation. Leveraging its unique OptiNAND™ technology, energy-assisted PMR (ePMR), triple-stage actuator (TSA), HelioSeal® and now UltraSMR technologies, Western Digital is on a clear path to delivering 30+ TB with ePMR.\n\n“As a longstanding partner of the industry’s leading cloud providers, we understand their unique requirements in building next-generation cloud infrastructure and invested in several HDD innovations we developed alongside our areal density technology,” said Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, EVP and GM, HDD Business Unit, Western Digital. “Our intent with taking this development strategy was not only to address the capacity demands of the world’s largest cloud titans but to deliver on a roadmap that would also support the evolving economics of their data centers for decades to come. With ePMR, OptiNAND and now UltraSMR as the foundation of Western Digital’s HDD roadmap, our cloud customers can continue rapidly scaling their business by taking advantage of our innovations to lower their storage TCO.”\n\nOptiNAND, UltraSMR and ePMR Drive Cloud TCO Lower\n\nThe new ePMR drives leverage Western Digital’s OptiNAND technology to unlock unprecedented levels of capacity, performance and data resiliency. The 22TB CMR HDD incorporates OptiNAND to deliver areal-density leadership on a mature 2.2TB/platter HelioSeal platform with ten disks.\n\nCombining OptiNAND with proprietary firmware that leverages HDD system-level hardware advancements, Western Digital’s new UltraSMR technology introduces l...