Zadara Storage Offer 5TB HDDs in AWS and Azure Data Centers

Zadara Storage, Inc. announced the addition of 5TB repository drives to its complement of available SSD and HDD storage options.

The move makes the company a cloud-enabled storage provider which offers advantages of these drives to IT managers. Enterprises and service providers using Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSATM) solution can obtain better pricing with the 5TB drives’ price/performance advantages. The drives are available to users of Zadara’s VSPA at both AWS and Azure’s data centers, as well to organizations that want to install the solution on premise.

The 5TB drives provide good price/GB ratio and enable volumes sizes of hundreds of terabytes for storage applications such as geospatial information systems, video, SaaS and big data. With their low power consumption and improved density, the drives, when coupled with standard SSD cache, enable I/O performance at a manageable cost. Customers may select the 5TB drives along with a number of other HDD and SSD choices when they provision their VPSA from within their private online management interface. Customers can later revise these choices and scale up or down with the click of a button in line with capacity and performance needs.

“The best customer-focused solution is an intelligent combination of flash cache, flash capacity, and cost-effective spinning drives. Hybrid storage yields the right performance at the right price and, uniquely, can support multiple price-performance points simultaneously,” said Nelson Nahum, CEO, Zadara. “We’re delighted to offer 5 TB Repository Drives alongside our SSD and other HDD choices. And as the industry continues to innovate, we will continue to keep pace by making sure we provide a variety of choices with our dedicated drives so that we remain the best and most efficient option for running important applications in the cloud.“