Huawei Supports 4TB HDDs

Huawei
Technologies
Co.
enhanced its storage system portfolio to support 4TB storage disks.

Working in close
collaboration with industry partner, Seagate Technology LLC, Huawei’s storage
portfolio provides customers with storage solutions with increased
capacity to improve competitiveness.

In today’s mass data
processing, HDDs play an important role in facilitating storage and
retrieval, as well as protection of data and information. Enterprise
organizations are particularly concerned about hard disk capacity,
power consumption, reliability, and per-GB cost when choosing storage
solutions. In addition to supporting 4TB storage disks, Huawei
converged SAN and NAS storage protocols in its T Series portfolio to
allow for simplified storage architecture, reduced network deployment
complexity, and lowered costs in procurement, operation and
maintenance. The enhanced T Series portfolio was developed in
partnership with Seagate Technology.

Seagate’s director
of PLM Cloud Strategy, said: "Seagate
is pleased to strengthen our strategic partnership with Huawei by
providing our sixth-generation enterprise-level 3.5-inch disks for
Huawei’s innovative storage solutions. This generation of disks
provides 4TB per-disk capacity, the largest in the industry, which is
ideal for solutions of 24/7 data storage, cloud computing, and data
centers. The collaboration between Seagate and Huawei, and the use
our latest disks allow Huawei to provide more high-quality storage
solutions with superior performance to its customers."

Fan Ruiqi, president
of Huawei’s Storage Product Line, said: "With
its large capacity and low power consumption, the 4TB hard disks
position Huawei’s innovative Universal Distributed Storage (UDS)
system as an ideal EB-level storage solution for enterprise
organizations. It provides 300TB storage capacity within a 4U space
in a standard IT cabinet, raising the storage density to 75TB/1U and
helping customers save initial investment as well as subsequent O&M
costs. The advanced distributed architecture and object storage
technology also allow the system to be smoothly expanded to 300PB,
ensuring its capability to meet enterprises’ evolving storage needs."

Huawei
and Seagate have a history of partnership in areas including
technology development, talent development and customer service.
Additionally, Huawei has been dedicated to innovation in the storage
field over the past 10 years. Drawing on the efforts in R&D and
the company’s experience in the technology industry, Huawei has
established a storage portfolio covering disk storage system, NAS,
SAN, application storage and cloud storage system. Delivering on its
commitment to serving as a partner for enterprises, Huawei
collaborates with partners to provide converged
storage solutions.