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Guru3D.com » News » Western Digital to Push the HDD Storage Envelope to 20 TB early 2020

Western Digital to Push the HDD Storage Envelope to 20 TB early 2020

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/04/2019 03:55 PM | source: | 8 comment(s)
Western Digital to Push the HDD Storage Envelope to 20 TB early 2020

WDC announced its nine-disk mechanical platform, which includes energy-assisted recording technology with the highest capacity available. The company will sample the 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 CMR HDD and the 20TB Ultrastar DC HC650 SMR HDD to select customers by the end of 2019 with production ramp expected in the first half of 2020.

This rapid ramp and availability of the 20TB SMR drive following a technology preview in June 2019, supports a growing ecosystem and the continued industry adoption of SMR. Western Digital estimates that 50 percent of its HDD exabytes shipped will be on SMR by 2023.2

"At Dropbox, we are constantly looking for ways to improve efficiency and power in our data centers," said Akhil Gupta, vice president of engineering at Dropbox. "We're excited to see SMR drives reach a 20TB capacity point, which will enable us to power collaboration and deliver long-term value to our customers."

Western Digital will offer a unique and full portfolio of Capacity Enterprise HDDs, with cost-optimized configurations for every important capacity point: six-disk 10TB Ultrastar DC HC330 air-based HDD; eight-disk 14TB Ultrastar DC HC530 helium-based HDD; nine-disk 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 helium-based HDD; and a nine-disk 20TB Ultrastar DC HC650 helium-based HDD. The company's strong execution has resulted in a rapid ramp and majority share at its capacity point for the Ultrastar DC HC530 HDD3, the industry's only available eight-disk 14TB CMR drive. According to TRENDFOCUS, 14TB will continue to be the industry's dominant capacity point through the first half of 2020.1

"Western Digital continues to innovate to deliver efficient, purpose-built storage with excellent TCO with the optimal combination of industry-leading areal density, mechanical innovations and materials advancements," said Christopher Bergey, senior vice president and general manager of Data Center Devices, Western Digital. "Leveraging our success in bringing energy-assisted recording to market with our expertise in mechanical design, we can deliver this scalable HDD platform with significant capacity increases to our customers, particularly in the transition from 14TB to 18TB."

John Chen, vice president at TRENDFOCUS, said, "As data continues to pour into the data center, there is an appetite for meaningful capacity increases that ultimately achieve better TCO. Western Digital has chosen capacity points of 10TB/14TB/18TB built around six-, eight- and nine-disk platforms to provide sufficient segmentation for the increasingly complex workloads driving the next wave of hyperscale growth."

Rick Kutcipal, product line manager, Data Center Solutions Group at Broadcom, said, "We continue to collaborate with Western Digital to deliver host-managed SMR and traditional CMR HDD high-capacity solutions across a broad ecosystem. Broadcom is a leading supplier of enterprise storage infrastructure. Our goal is to enable customers to create optimal infrastructure designs that reduce risk while lowering total system cost. By continuing to deliver the highest capacities, Western Digital and Broadcom will enable customers to reap both time-to-market and TCO benefits for generations to come."

Availability
Western Digital's 10TB Ultrastar DC HC330 and 14TB Ultrastar DC HC530 are available now. The company will sample the 20TB Ultrastar DC HC650 SMR HDD and the Ultrastar DC HC550 CMR HDD in 18TB and 16TB capacities to select customers by the end of this year, with qualification and volume shipments beginning in the first half of 2020.



Western Digital to Push the HDD Storage Envelope to 20 TB early 2020 Western Digital to Push the HDD Storage Envelope to 20 TB early 2020




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JOHN30011887
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#5707827 Posted on: 09/04/2019 04:13 PM
I guess all hdd's are now going to be helium filled, my current hdd is the wd black 6tb which doesnt have that

I just dont like the idea of helium being needed, i keep thinking the hdd wont last as long as my current hdd and the helium will slowly leak (i might be wrong)

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#5707848 Posted on: 09/04/2019 04:34 PM
With the size of 4K remux files, there is definitely a market for these huge drives. I am rapidly running out of space, used over 96TB!

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#5707890 Posted on: 09/04/2019 06:01 PM
I doubt we will see anytime soon this 20tb reaching consumer attainable pricing. We are bearly seeing the 10tb starting to be attractive by shucking.

I don't know if I can afford more drives. I've got 5 10TBs in my system, leaving me no free SATA slots. It would cost me a lot to replace all those... Was hoping we'd have something bigger by now like 25 TBs.
Get a cheap HBA PCIe card, on ebay you can get 9207-8i for like $50, and you will have 8 more sata ports.

With the size of 4K remux files, there is definitely a market for these huge drives. I am rapidly running out of space, used over 96TB!
140TB server half full already ='(.

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#5707969 Posted on: 09/04/2019 08:29 PM
Too expensive.

I agree as the last drive I got was 4tb that was all most two year ago and prices still haven't drop any as reg was hovering a round $100 to on sale $85 it was what I paid 2 year ago I was kind of hoping 8tb would be at $100 to 110 mark by now

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#5708002 Posted on: 09/04/2019 09:51 PM
the highest capacity per-platter is 2tb
5platter is common with WD/hitachi ... seagate 6platter
so that give 10~12tb non-helium drive

so far there already some non-helium 8tb hdd :
seagate ST8000DM004 8TB
wd red-pro WD8003FFBX 8tb

also dont think many report helium-leak within warranty period
there also SMART data to flag if there helium-leak

as for price it will drop eventually
4tb is today standard capacity ... above it, it indeed still with premium price
i am guessing in 2years those 6~8TB will dropped closer to today 4TB
but that not considering inflation part, every product prices keep going up and never go down

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