Microsoft Ignite: WD Showcased Next-Gen Ultrastar SAS SSD for Enterprise Storage and Server Workloads, and Up to 20TB HDD

At Microsoft Ignite, Western Digital Corp. (WDC) has demonstrated how its SSDs, HDDs and storage server platforms help data center managers and architects deliver scale-out performance and storage density with TCO for demanding IT environments.

With the company’s lineup, Microsoft enterprise customers can accelerate mission-critical applications and hybrid-cloud workloads, and optimize virtualized, hyperscale and Azure Stack HCI environments to better store, move, process and extract the value from their data.

Experience live demonstrations of a world’s highest capacity HDDs that deliver the best TCO value at scale – the 18TB ⁽¹⁾ CMR and 20TB SMR Ultrastar HDDs with energy-assisted recording technology. It is also highlighting its latest Ultrastar 96-layer NVMe SSD families and Ultrastar Serv60+8 hybrid storage server, along with their industry-leading Ultrastar Data60 storage enclosure. Additionally, the company is introducing its sixth-generation SAS SSD, the Ultrastar DC SS540, for AFAs, caching tiers, HPC, and SDS environments (blog: SAS Lives On and Here’s Why).

Demo Highlights:

• Scale storage performance
  With Ultrastar NVMe, SAS, and edge SSDs and capacity-optimized HDDs for architecting efficient and purpose-built infrastructure to achieve a best TCO in the zettabyte era

Ultrastar Serv60+8

• Balanced storage performance for Azure Stack HCI
  With the Ultrastar Serv60+8 performance-optimized hybrid storage server for SDS, SQL Server, VDI, virtualization, edge, Microsoft Office, scale-out storage, and hybrid cloud

Ultrastar Data60

• Expanded, affordable storage capacity for all Microsoft environments
  Designed for high-density and flexibility, the Ultrastar Data60 storage platform supports up to 840TB of disk storage in a compact form-factor, optimized for VDI, virtualization, scale-out storage, and hybrid cloud.

⁽¹⁾ 1MB is equal to one million bytes, 1GB is equal to 1,000MB (one billion bytes), and 1TB is equal to 1,000GB (one trillion bytes) when referring to storage capacity. Actual user capacity may vary based on operating environment.