First SAS HDD at 4TB From WD ...

Western Digital Corp. is expanding its enterprise storage offerings with the release of WD RE SAS and WD RE SATA HDDs in capacities up to 4TB, the largest on the market today.

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WD RE SAS HDDs

Available in 1TB, 2TB, 3TB and 4TB capacities for nearline SAS and 2TB, 3TB and 4TB for SATA, the 3.5-inch WD RE SAS and WD RE SATA hard drives offer the combination of enterprise features and capacity to meet the demands of conventional business-critical environments as well as the high-capacity and performance requirements of cloud and scale-out computing.

"Given the insatiable need for storage capacity across all market segments, WD is offering both SAS and SATA interfaces for the WD 4TB RE hard drives to best support both private and public clouds," said Doug Pickford, senior director of business marketing for WD’s enterprise business unit. "WD continues to pioneer the capacity-optimized 3.5-inch market segment, in particular, and the WD RE SAS and SATA 4TB drives are designed, tested and optimized for enterprise storage and applications, enabling 33% greater capacity than previously available drives and up to 2.4PB of raw capacity in a single enterprise rack."

"With the new 4TB 7,200 hard disk drives from WD, the Dell PowerVault MD3 Array series will offer customers more storage capacity than ever before," said Brett Roscoe, general manager and executive director, PowerVault and data management solutions, Dell Inc.‘s Storage. "The new 4TB HDDs on our recently announced MD3 Dense arrays will allow our customers to store even more data in a compact form factor, with up to 240TB of data storage in a single dense array and up to a maximum of 720TB utilizing a single MD3 Dense array and two 60 disk MD3 expansion enclosures."

"High density storage, low power consumption, and reliability are crucial for cloud, big data, and data center infrastructures and services," said Andy Morgan, senior director of Storage Platforms at Xyratex Ltd. "Through the early qualification of our partner’s enterprise products like WD for compatibility with our own OneStorTM solutions, we are providing our OEM customers a means to address these requirements and profit from these growing markets."

Features of WD RE SAS and WD RE SATA HDDs include:

Dual port, full duplex connectivity: For business-critical enterprise topologies.
1.4M hours MTBF / 1.2M hours MTBF: Provides high level of reliability for 24×7 and up to 100% duty applications, for the RE SAS and SATA, respectively.
Planet friendly: RoHS compliant, halogen reduced components.
NoTouch ramp load technology: Recording heads never touch the disk media ensuring less wear to recording heads and media as well as better drive protection in transit.
Dual Stage Actuation (DSA) and Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF): Best in class operation and performance when drives are used in vibration-prone, multi-drive chassis.
Capacity: For capacity enterprise storage solutions, such as scale out, cloud storage, RAID arrays, and NAS; a 2.4PB of available storage (with 10 4U, 60 bay enclosures).
Reliability: 5-disk platform, 800GB per platter, SAS-interface, 6Gb/sec transfer rates built for high performance 24×7.