Western Digital broadens NVMe
data centre portfolio
quickly becoming the de facto standard
for everything from traditional scale-up
database applications to emerging edge
computing architectures.
“For our cloud and hyperscale customers,
performance, economics and endurance
at scale are paramount,” said Eyal Bek,
Vice President, Data Centre and Client
Computing Devices at Western Digital.
Eyal Bek, Vice President, Data Centre
and Client Computing Devices at
Western Digital
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estern Digital has announced
two new additions to its broad
portfolio of NVMe-based
systems, platforms, SSDs and memory
drives for data centre and cloud customers.
With a full portfolio covering applications
from edge-to-core, these additions are the
Western Digital Ultrastar DC SN630 NVMe
SSD and the Western Digital CL SN720
NVMe SSD.
Each leverages the power of Western
Digital’s vertical integration capabilities,
including internally developed controller
and firmware architectures and 64-layer
3D NAND technology.
“The Ultrastar DC SN630 SSD and
Western Digital CL SN720 SSD, both of
which leverage our internally developed
SSD architectures and 3D NAND, can
help our customers step up from SATA to
NVMe performance as they position their
data centres for the future.”
“Our strong partnership with Western
Digital brings compelling flash performance
and cost innovations to the fast-growing
hyperconverged infrastructure industry,”
said Lee Caswell, Vice President Products,
Storage and Availability at VMware.
“The combination of new Western Digital
NVMe products, optimised for cloud and
software-defined storage applications,
with the award-winning VMware
vSAN software can improve TCO and
productivity for customers building out
modern infrastructure.”
Western Digital CL SN720 NVMe SSD
is an NVMe SSD purpose-built for the
performance requirements of boot and
edge applications. It enables outstanding
random read IOPS performance, optimal
endurance with encryption capabilities
and extended enterprise validation for
server operating systems’ boot and edge
data centre applications. With capacities
from 256GB to 2TB in the M.2 form factor,
the Western Digital CL SN720 NVMe SSD
is designed for edge servers, content
delivery networks, cloud-based gaming
and IoT platforms and gateways. ◊
As a replacement for lower-performing
SATA SSDs, these new NVMe drives meet
the insatiable need for performance,
scalability, endurance and low total
cost of ownership (TCO) for public and
private cloud deployments, hyperscale
cloud environments and next-generation
workloads at the edge.
IT managers face challenges such as
managing multiple workload types, scaling
at optimal TCO and controlling server
sprawl. Due to its inherent scalability
and performance benefits, NVMe is
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Western Digital Ultrastar DC SN630
NVMe SSD is a 2.5-inch small form
factor (SFF) enterprise-grade NVMe SSD
optimised for cloud storage. The Ultrastar
DC SN630 SSD enables cloud architects to
increase performance for latency-sensitive
workloads while providing excellent
QoS. Recognising the need for purpose-
built storage with varying endurance
requirements, the Ultrastar DC SN630 SSD
will be available in two configurations. For
mixed-use workloads, the Ultrastar DC
SN630 SSD comes in capacities between
800 gigabytes (GB) and 6.4 terabytes
(TB) with two drive-writes per day
(2DWD) and for read-intensive workloads,
capacities are available from 960GB to
7.68TB with 0.8DWD, making it ideally
suited to accelerate applications, including
software-defined or hyper-converged
infrastructures, OLAP, media streaming
and the rapidly growing IoT segment
where low latency is paramount.