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WD sales on the boat of Re

by on10 March 2015


Up to 6 terabyte capacity

Western Digital introduced new datacenter hard drives that it claims has the lowest power consumption of any high-capacity 3.5-inch hard drive available today.

The WD Re+ hard drive family provides up to 6 terabyte (TB) capacities for WD's popular WD Re and WD Se datacenter product lines.

Modern datacenters work on the idea of a total cost of ownership formula comprised of capacity, price, power consumption and the relationships between these variables and WD thinks the Re+ will work well with these numbers.

Matt Rutledge, senior vice president of storage technology at WD said that with power consumption a primary consideration in today's large web-scale cloud infrastructures, and the WD Re+ drive consuming only 6 watts for 6 TB, customers' TCOs increase and savings for large deployments could be millions of dollars per year.

"Dollars and watts are the finite currencies in the modern datacenter," said. "With a leading watt-per-gigabyte ratio and the long-trusted reliability of the WD Re hard drive platform, WD Re+ offers our customers having limited power budgets a WD Re-class choice for tier-2, high-intensity storage applications. Massive, scale-out deployments must deliver tremendous value to customers across a range of applications, while providing a healthy return to the infrastructure owner. WD is focused on offering that value across its portfolio."

The SATA 6 Gb/s WD Re+ hard drive family features a dense five-platter platform, which renders an optimal mix of low power consumption, high capacity, 24 x 7 x 365-reliability and affordability. Vibration tolerance and Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) are also considerations in these applications.

WD Re+ hard drives deliver 1.2m hours MTTF, enhanced RAFF technology to increase vibration tolerance and a high-intensity workload and reliability rating of 550 TB-per-year workload, the highest workload capabilities of any WD 3.5-inch hard drive. The new WD Re+ and stalwart WD Re share a platform to simplify large-scale deployments and provide the reliability and performance customers have come to expect from WD's datacenter products.

WD Re hard drives also are designed to handle up to 550 TB per year in high-intensity datacenter applications. They offer SATA interface with up to 6 Gb/s transfer rates and sustained sequential data rates of up to 225 MB/s, delivering performance and reliability needed in any datacenter.

WD Re and WD Se 6 TB hard drives will be available for qualification next quarter. More information about WD's datacenter hard drives can be found on the company website. Curiously no word on price.

 

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