Western Digital Enhances Its Datacenter Portfolio With WD Gold Hard Drives
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Posted on April 19, 2016 at 7:07:01 AM
Western Digital Enhances Its Datacenter Portfolio With WD Gold Hard Drives
New Color Designated Line Features up to 8TB Capacity with Optimal Performance, High Capacity and Enhanced Reliability for Datacenter Applications
IRVINE, Calif., April 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC), a world leader in storage solutions, today announced the expansion of its award-winning color portfolio with a new line; WD Gold(TM) datacenter hard drives. WD Gold datacenter hard drives are designed for a broad range of applications - including small- to medium-scale enterprise servers and storage, and rack-mount datacenter servers and storage enclosures. WD Gold drives are currently available at select U.S. distributors, resellers and through the WD Store.
With purpose-driven designs for the datacenter, WD Gold datacenter hard drives are launching with a new, high-capacity configuration of up to 8TB that offers HelioSeal® helium-technology for performance, ideal capacity per square foot, power efficiency and low power consumption for datacenter environments. WD Gold datacenter hard drives feature an optimized design with an 8TB option that helps reduce the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of servers and storage systems, benefiting IT administrators challenged with growing storage capacity needs on limited budgets. WD Gold hard drives will also include a premium dedicated support line for customers worldwide.
"Western Digital has a proven history of providing award-winning purpose-driven products for unique requirements of each application environment, like WD Red®, WD Purple® and WD Blue® drives," said Brendan Collins vice president of product marketing, Western Digital Corporation. "WD Gold is a pinnacle part of the color portfolio strategy and another step in creating optimized drives for the markets we serve. Our continued goal is to deliver the most competitive and reliable solutions on the market."
WD Gold datacenter hard drives include:
-- Improved power efficiency - New electronics enhance power efficiency up
to 15 percent(1). HelioSeal technology enables up to 26 percent lower
power consumption(2)
-- Better performance - Up to 18 percent sequential performance improvement
over previous generation WD Re(TM) 4TB datacenter drives, and up to 30
percent improvement in random write performance over previous generation
WD Re 6TB datacenter drives through media-based cache, and up to 3x
improvement over competitive offerings
-- High reliability - WD Gold incorporates best-of-breed design,
manufacturing and test processes to achieve one of the highest
reliability ratings in the industry - 2.5 million hours MTBF (8TB
offering)
-- Dedicated Premium Support Line and WD Gold Model Numbers - Western
Digital offers a 24/7 premium support line for WD Gold customers and can
be reached at U.S.: (855) 559-3733; International: +80055593733. WD Gold
model numbers:
-- 8TB: WD8002FRYZ
-- 6TB: WD6002FRYZ
-- 4TB: WD4002FYYZ
More information about the WD Gold hard drives and terms of the limited warranty may be found on the company website at http://www.wd.com.
About Western Digital
Founded in 1970, Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), Irvine, Calif., is an industry-leading developer and manufacturer of storage solutions that enable people to create, manage, experience and preserve digital content. It is a long-time innovator in the storage industry. Western Digital Corporation is responding to changing market needs by providing a full portfolio of compelling, high-quality storage products with effective technology deployment, high efficiency, flexibility and speed. Its products are marketed under the HGST and WD brands to OEMs, distributors, resellers, cloud infrastructure providers and consumers. Financial and investor information is available on the company's Investor Relations website at investor.wdc.com.
Apps, services, and other features are subject to change based on your location, software version, device model, and third party service providers.
Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, WD Blue, WD Purple and WD Red are registered trademarks and WD Gold and WD Re are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. HelioSeal is a registered trademark of Western Digital Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to other companies. Pictures shown may vary from actual products. Not all products may be available in all regions of the world. As used for storage capacity, one gigabyte = one billion bytes; one terabyte = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.
(1) Versus previous generation WD Re hard drives
(2) Versus competitive enterprise class 8TB drives
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CONTACT: Heather Skinner, WD Press Relations, 949.672.7920, heather.skinner@wdc.com; or Bob Blair, WDC Investor Relations, 949.672.7834, robert.blair@wdc.com
Web Site: http://www.wd.com
New Color Designated Line Features up to 8TB Capacity with Optimal Performance, High Capacity and Enhanced Reliability for Datacenter Applications
IRVINE, Calif., April 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC), a world leader in storage solutions, today announced the expansion of its award-winning color portfolio with a new line; WD Gold(TM) datacenter hard drives. WD Gold datacenter hard drives are designed for a broad range of applications - including small- to medium-scale enterprise servers and storage, and rack-mount datacenter servers and storage enclosures. WD Gold drives are currently available at select U.S. distributors, resellers and through the WD Store.
With purpose-driven designs for the datacenter, WD Gold datacenter hard drives are launching with a new, high-capacity configuration of up to 8TB that offers HelioSeal® helium-technology for performance, ideal capacity per square foot, power efficiency and low power consumption for datacenter environments. WD Gold datacenter hard drives feature an optimized design with an 8TB option that helps reduce the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of servers and storage systems, benefiting IT administrators challenged with growing storage capacity needs on limited budgets. WD Gold hard drives will also include a premium dedicated support line for customers worldwide.
"Western Digital has a proven history of providing award-winning purpose-driven products for unique requirements of each application environment, like WD Red®, WD Purple® and WD Blue® drives," said Brendan Collins vice president of product marketing, Western Digital Corporation. "WD Gold is a pinnacle part of the color portfolio strategy and another step in creating optimized drives for the markets we serve. Our continued goal is to deliver the most competitive and reliable solutions on the market."
WD Gold datacenter hard drives include:
-- Improved power efficiency - New electronics enhance power efficiency up
to 15 percent(1). HelioSeal technology enables up to 26 percent lower
power consumption(2)
-- Better performance - Up to 18 percent sequential performance improvement
over previous generation WD Re(TM) 4TB datacenter drives, and up to 30
percent improvement in random write performance over previous generation
WD Re 6TB datacenter drives through media-based cache, and up to 3x
improvement over competitive offerings
-- High reliability - WD Gold incorporates best-of-breed design,
manufacturing and test processes to achieve one of the highest
reliability ratings in the industry - 2.5 million hours MTBF (8TB
offering)
-- Dedicated Premium Support Line and WD Gold Model Numbers - Western
Digital offers a 24/7 premium support line for WD Gold customers and can
be reached at U.S.: (855) 559-3733; International: +80055593733. WD Gold
model numbers:
-- 8TB: WD8002FRYZ
-- 6TB: WD6002FRYZ
-- 4TB: WD4002FYYZ
More information about the WD Gold hard drives and terms of the limited warranty may be found on the company website at http://www.wd.com.
About Western Digital
Founded in 1970, Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), Irvine, Calif., is an industry-leading developer and manufacturer of storage solutions that enable people to create, manage, experience and preserve digital content. It is a long-time innovator in the storage industry. Western Digital Corporation is responding to changing market needs by providing a full portfolio of compelling, high-quality storage products with effective technology deployment, high efficiency, flexibility and speed. Its products are marketed under the HGST and WD brands to OEMs, distributors, resellers, cloud infrastructure providers and consumers. Financial and investor information is available on the company's Investor Relations website at investor.wdc.com.
Apps, services, and other features are subject to change based on your location, software version, device model, and third party service providers.
Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, WD Blue, WD Purple and WD Red are registered trademarks and WD Gold and WD Re are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. HelioSeal is a registered trademark of Western Digital Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to other companies. Pictures shown may vary from actual products. Not all products may be available in all regions of the world. As used for storage capacity, one gigabyte = one billion bytes; one terabyte = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.
(1) Versus previous generation WD Re hard drives
(2) Versus competitive enterprise class 8TB drives
https://photos.prnewswire.com/prnvar/20160418/356540
http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnvar/20000711/WDCLOGO
Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20160418/356540
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Western Digital Corp.
CONTACT: Heather Skinner, WD Press Relations, 949.672.7920, heather.skinner@wdc.com; or Bob Blair, WDC Investor Relations, 949.672.7834, robert.blair@wdc.com
Web Site: http://www.wd.com