{"id":35330,"date":"2022-07-25T18:04:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T15:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/?p=35330"},"modified":"2026-03-28T01:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:22:11","slug":"western-digital-extends-hdd-technology-and-areal-density-leadership-across-smart-video-network-attached-storage-nas-and-it-data-center-channel-segments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/western-digital-extends-hdd-technology-and-areal-density-leadership-across-smart-video-network-attached-storage-nas-and-it-data-center-channel-segments\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Digital Extends HDD Technology and Areal Density Leadership Across Smart Video, Network Attached Storage (NAS) and IT\/Data Center Channel Segments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Now Shipping 22TB WD Gold\u2122, WD Red\u2122 Pro and WD Purple\u2122 Pro HDDs&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Al Riyadh, Saudi Arabia\u2013 July 25, 2022<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>\u2013&nbsp;<\/strong>When it comes to data, everything is growing \u2013 quantity, size, format, resolution, use cases, applications, value and more. As people and businesses look for solutions to&nbsp;<a>effectively and efficiently store their data<\/a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;zettabyte era, Western Digital\u00ae&nbsp;HDDs continue to play a critical role in delivering massive capacity,&nbsp;<a>performance<\/a>&nbsp;and reliability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extending its innovation and\u00a0technology leadership across its portfolio, Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that it is now shipping new 22TB\u00b9 HDDs\u00a0targeting three key segments:\u00a0WD Gold\u2122\u00a0HDDs for IT\/data center channel customers;\u00a0WD Red\u2122 Pro\u00a0for network attached storage (NAS); and\u00a0WD Purple\u2122 Pro\u00a0for smart video\/surveillance. As highlighted in its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.cvent.com\/event\/35af293e-eff6-4874-8d2f-1e4af1e6623a\/summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What\u2019s Next Western Digital Event<\/a>, these new\u00a0drives are loaded with industry-firsts, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.westerndigital.com\/optinand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OptiNAND\u2122 technology<\/a>,\u00a0<a>energy-assisted<\/a>\u00a0PMR (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.westerndigital.com\/the-magnetic-attraction-of-epmr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ePMR<\/a>), triple-stage actuator (TSA) and HelioSeal\u00ae to deliver the industry\u2019s highest areal density at 2.2TB per platter, delivering 22TB\u00a0<a>CMR<\/a>\u00a0HDDs for its customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are thrilled to reach this milestone as&nbsp;HDDs are complex and sophisticated systems,\u201d&nbsp;said Ravi Pendekanti, senior vice president of product management and marketing, HDD Business Unit at Western Digital. \u201cFrom the cloud to the edge, Western Digital\u2019s hard drives play a vital role in storing, protecting,&nbsp;<a>capturing<\/a>&nbsp;and analyzing data&nbsp;<a>that\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;shaping&nbsp;<a>nearly every<\/a>&nbsp;aspect of our digital lives. Our technology leadership and expanded portfolio of industry-leading HDDs provide us with a tremendous opportunity to deliver value to our customers today and well into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WD Gold&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Enterprise-Class HDDs for&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Data Center&nbsp;Storage Systems&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cloud and enterprise data center architects continue to squeeze every drop of investment out of their IT infrastructure.&nbsp;The economics of storing every bit matters, and factors like&nbsp;capacity, density, energy use, sustainability and more all play a critical role in helping to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO). Moving to the industry\u2019s highest available CMR HDD capacity can help.&nbsp;Western Digital\u2019s new,&nbsp;enterprise-class,&nbsp;<ins><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndigital.com\/products\/internal-drives\/wd-gold-sata-hdd#WD221KRYZ\">22TB WD Gold\u2122 CMR HDD<\/a><\/ins>&nbsp;with OptiNAND technology gives users the ability to lower TCO by&nbsp;increasing storage in the same footprint or by reducing racks, which can help reduce costs such as adding more racks, network, power, cooling, cabling, etc. Unique to Western Digital is its OptiNAND-enabled&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.westerndigital.com\/content\/dam\/doc-library\/en_us\/assets\/public\/western-digital\/collateral\/tech-brief\/tech-brief-write-cache-data-safety.pdf\">ArmorCache\u2122<\/a>&nbsp;technology that combines the performance of write cache enabled mode with the data protection of write cached disabled mode without having to compromise by choosing between the two. With a full portfolio of solutions ranging from 1TB-22TB\u00b9, these&nbsp;<a>highly reliable<\/a>&nbsp;WD Gold HDDs are ideal for demanding storage environments, providing up to&nbsp;<a>2.5M hours<\/a>&nbsp;MTBF,<sup>2<\/sup>&nbsp;vibration protection technology and a low power draw thanks to HelioSeal technology (for 12TB and above).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WD Red Pro HDDs&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Support&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>All&nbsp;Major NAS&nbsp;Systems&nbsp;with&nbsp;Up to 24&nbsp;Bays<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Work from home has accelerated, and many small office\/home office workers or SMBs are struggling to&nbsp;keep up with rapidly growing amounts of data. The new&nbsp;<ins><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndigital.com\/products\/internal-drives\/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd#WD2202FFSX\">22TB WD Red\u2122 Pro CMR HDD<\/a><\/ins>&nbsp;with OptiNAND technology is ideal for those who have high-capacity storage needs, or for those who have reached the maximum capacity on their existing network-attached storage (NAS) system.&nbsp;Engineered specifically for NAS systems with up to 24 bays, WD Red Pro HDDs are optimized for multi-user environments and are designed to handle high-intensity workloads in 24&#215;7 environments. WD Red&nbsp;Pro HDDs are ideal for storing, protecting, archiving, and sharing massive amounts of data with many users and can handle multiple data-hungry applications such as file sync and sharing, backup\/archive, multimedia repository, and private cloud storage. The WD Red Pro family comes in capacities ranging from 2TB to 22TB\u00b9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WD Purple Pro HDDs for Advanced AI-Enabled, Always-on Smart Video Recorders, Appliances and Servers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smart video&nbsp;surveillance&nbsp;is on the&nbsp;rise,&nbsp;bringing increased storage&nbsp;requirements&nbsp;along with it. For example, high-resolution cameras are&nbsp;capturing multiple video, picture&nbsp;and metadata&nbsp;streams per camera;&nbsp;AI and video analytics are placing new demands on quantity,&nbsp;<a>quality<\/a>and retention of video data; and deep-learning solutions are needing more video to train AI algorithms, all while video-surveillance-as-a-service (VSaaS) customers are needing purpose-built storage to efficiently manage this data at scale.&nbsp;The&nbsp;<ins><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndigital.com\/products\/internal-drives\/wd-purple-pro-sata-hdd#WD221PURP\">22TB WD Purple Pro CMR HDD<\/a><\/ins>&nbsp;with OptiNAND technology delivers big capacity&nbsp;to address these trends,&nbsp;in a purpose-built enterprise-class drive&nbsp;supporting&nbsp;video analytics servers,&nbsp;and&nbsp;AI and deep-learning systems.&nbsp;The drive features Western Digital\u2019s exclusive&nbsp;AllFrame\u2122 AI technology&nbsp;that supports&nbsp;32 AI streams for deep-learning analytics within the system while helping to reduce dropped frames. WD Purple Pro drives are optimized to handle up to 64 single-stream HD cameras<sup>3<\/sup>&nbsp;as well as many of the latest smart cameras that transmit multiple streams. It&nbsp;offers&nbsp;high reliability with&nbsp;a MTBF of up to&nbsp;<a>2.5 million hours<\/a><sup>&nbsp;2<\/sup>&nbsp;for advanced smart video solutions that operate in 24\/7 environments.&nbsp;The WD Purple Pro HDD family now comes in 8TB-22TB capacities\u00b9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Western Digital\u2019s&nbsp;<a>industry-leading<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndigital.com\/solutions\/data-center\">Ultrastar<\/a>&nbsp;22TB CMR HDDs and 26TB UltraSMR HDDs started shipping to select hyperscale cloud customers in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now Shipping 22TB WD Gold\u2122, WD Red\u2122 Pro and WD Purple\u2122 Pro HDDs&nbsp; Al Riyadh, Saudi Arabia\u2013 July 25, 2022&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;When it comes to data, everything is growing \u2013 quantity, size, format, resolution, use cases, applications, value and more. 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