{"id":15853,"date":"2020-11-10T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/?p=15853"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:43:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:43:34","slug":"western-digital-expands-flash-portfolio-for-scaling-data-centric-architectures-in-the-zettabyte-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/western-digital-expands-flash-portfolio-for-scaling-data-centric-architectures-in-the-zettabyte-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Digital Expands Flash Portfolio for Scaling Data-Centric Architectures in the Zettabyte Era"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>From Enabling Data-Intensive Industrial Designs at the Edge to Driving Efficient Data Center Storage Architectures Based on New ZNS SSDs, Company Debuts Three New Solutions at FMS 2020<\/em><em><\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>News Highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The extended flash family includes the Ultrastar\u00ae\u00a0DC ZN540 ZNS NVMe\u2122 SSD for\u00a0architecting a more efficient storage tier with competitive TCO, as well as\u00a0an industrial-grade SSD and an upgraded client SSD.<\/li><li>On Tuesday, November 10 from 1:15-1:45 PST, Dr. Siva Sivaram, president of Technology and Strategy at Western Digital, will host a keynote panel at Flash Memory Summit (FMS) titled,\u00a0\u201cStorage as the Driver of Change: Rethinking Data Infrastructure.\u201d\u00a0To register, visit:\u00a0https:\/\/flashmemorysummit.com\/<\/li><li>Western Digital experts will also be speaking on panels and presenting on topics including NVMe, NVMe-oF\u2122, Zoned Namespaces (ZNS), Zoned Storage, RISC-V, computational storage, and more. See the full FMS virtual show agenda\u00a0here.<\/li><li>Visit Western Digital\u2019s virtual booth #103 to talk with experts about session topics or how NVMe SSDs will impact next-generation cloud and edge applications for AI\/ML, IoT, entertainment, analytics, high-res video, and database performance.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Al Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 10 \u20132020 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Building on a unique and diverse product portfolio across HDD and flash,\u00a0Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced a suite of new NVMe SSDs for enabling next-generation, data-centric architectures for data centers, industrial IoT, automotive and client applications. The new family includes the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.westerndigital.com\/zoned-storage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ultrastar<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0DC ZN540 ZNS NVMe\u2122 SSD<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0designing a more efficient data center storage tier with competitive TCO;\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndigital.com\/products\/embedded-removable-flash\/industrial-ix-sn530-nvme-ssd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Western Digital<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0IX SN530 Industrial SSD<\/a>\u00a0for the extreme environments of industrial and automotive applications; and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndigital.com\/products\/internal-drives\/wd-blue-nvme-ssd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2TB WD Blue\u2122 SN550 NVMe SSD<\/a>\u00a0for speeding up PC performance.\u00a0Leveraging Western Digital\u2019s unique vertical integration capabilities \u2013 from designing and\u00a0manufacturing it&#8217;s NAND flash\u00a0to\u00a0developing\u00a0its own in-house SSD controllers and firmware \u2013 the new products underscore the company\u2019s continued strength and commitment\u00a0in driving storage innovation for new\u00a0system architectures, applications, and use cases for global customers across cloud, OEM, enterprise, channel and retail end-user markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Enabling Efficient Data Center Architectures\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>The amount of data created over the next three years will be more than the data created over the past 30 years, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS46286020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IDC<\/a>. Billions of connected systems will generate a myriad of contextualized data sets from smart video to consumer and sensor data, which must be captured, transformed, and analyzed to bring value to industries, businesses, and people.\u00a0Legacy architectures cannot keep up with today\u2019s data-intensive environments.\u00a0The challenge is how to efficiently and cost-effectively build the data infrastructure that will keep up with the data demands of the zettabyte-scale era.\u00a0Storage is critical and fundamental to creating these new architectures and extracting value from data.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zoned Storage is the new storage architecture for the next-generation enterprise data center. In addition to championing the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndigital.com\/company\/innovations\/zoned-storage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zoned Storag<\/a>e Initiative\u00a0and\u00a0ZoneStorage.io, and contributing to the NVMe Working Group ZNS specification and the Linux\u00ae\u00a0open-source community to further ecosystem development, Western Digital today announced that it is now sampling the new Ultrastar DC ZN540 ZNS NVMe SSD to select customers. The Ultrastar DC ZN540 ZNS SSD\u00a0includes a vertically integrated, dual-port, high-availability NVMe controller with capacities up to 8TB in a standard\u00a0U.2 form-factor.\u00a0Leveraging\u00a0ZNS, an industry-standard specification, the new DC ZN540 is a new generation of SSD ideally suited for multi-tenancy environments and other data-centric applications such as event stream processing. Compared to conventional SSDs, the drive delivers up to 4x performance and 2.5x QoS improvements, as well as better efficiency, utilization, and scale while lowering TCO for public and private cloud infrastructure. Western Digital is committed to the development of a comprehensive Zoned Storage ecosystem and application support, which includes managing the synergies of high-capacity\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndigital.com\/products\/data-center-drives\/ultrastar-dc-hc600-series-hdd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SMR HDDs<\/a>\u00a0and ZNS SSDs under a standardized unified Zoned Storage framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Empowering Data-Intensive Industrial IoT and Automotive Designs\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Western Digital\u2019s new IX SN530 is an industrial-grade\u00a0NVMe SSD designed for the extreme temperature, performance, high-endurance, and reliability requirements found in automotive and industrial applications. Ideal for\u00a0factory automation, transportation, medical, robotics, drones, defense, retail, and other rugged edge environments, the IX SN530 NVMe SSD features a broad operating temperature range from -40\u00b0C to +85\u00b0C and delivers a\u00a020G operating vibration specification.\u00a0With read performance of up to 2,400 MB\/s, it is the high-performance solution for OEMs designing new applications or transitioning from SATA SSDs. It is available in compact M.2 2230 or M.2 2280 form factors with capacity points from 85GB to 2TB. The IX SN530 TLC family is now sampling. SLC versions will be available in January 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Western-Digital-IX-SN530-m2-ssd-family-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Western-Digital-IX-SN530-m2-ssd-family-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Western-Digital-IX-SN530-m2-ssd-family-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Western-Digital-IX-SN530-m2-ssd-family-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Western-Digital-IX-SN530-m2-ssd-family-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Western-Digital-IX-SN530-m2-ssd-family-1080x1080.png 1080w, https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Western-Digital-IX-SN530-m2-ssd-family-440x440.png 440w, https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Western-Digital-IX-SN530-m2-ssd-family.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bringing 2TB Capacity and Speed to Content Creators \u2013&nbsp;<\/strong>The award-winning WD Blue portfolio now offers its popular WD Blue SN550 NVMe SSD in a 2TB drive, bringing a higher-capacity NVMe solution to content creators, including graphic designers, animators, videographers, architects and software developers. Whether creating digital art, using CAD software or in post-production, the WD Blue SN550 NVMe SSD delivers over four times the speed of Western Digital\u2019s fastest SATA drives. The WD Blue SN550 2TB is available now for purchase&nbsp;at select Western Digital retailers, e-tailers, resellers, system integrators and at the WD store for $249.99 MSRP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCompanies across every major industry and every vertical market are using flash technology to transform their businesses.\u00a0The future of storage is application-centric, and optimized for those businesses,\u201d said\u00a0Robert Soderbery, executive vice president and general manager, Western Digital\u2019s Flash business. \u201cToday we are launching new SSD products for the cloud, enterprise storage, industrial and client computing applications. These new SSDs are critical building blocks for our digital world, enabled by new architectures, giving a variety of customers more options than ever to ensure their data is fast, secure, and protected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Enabling Data-Intensive Industrial Designs at the Edge to Driving Efficient Data Center Storage Architectures Based on New ZNS SSDs, Company Debuts Three New Solutions at FMS 2020 News Highlights: The extended flash family includes the Ultrastar\u00ae\u00a0DC ZN540 ZNS NVMe\u2122 SSD for\u00a0architecting a more efficient storage tier with competitive TCO, as well as\u00a0an industrial-grade SSD 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