Hard Drives/Solid State Drives

Ultrastar® hard drives feature up to 10 times the workload rating of desktop drives and employ advanced technologies for enterprise-class reliability, power efficiency and performance. Designed from the ground up to be an ultra-robust storage device, Ultrastar drives are the perfect solution for your business.

High Workload Rating
Delivering dependable performance to any storage environment, Ultrastar hard drives are designed with a workload rating up to 550TB per year, among the highest of any 3.5-inch hard drive.

Enterprise-class Storage to Rely On
Ultrastar is our top-end drive for data centers. With up to 2.5 million hours MTBF, Ultrastar hard drives deliver reliability and durability, are built for yearly operation (24x7x365) within the most demanding storage environments, and are backed with a 5-year limited warranty.

HelioSeal™ Technology
Featured in over 30 million Western Digital hard drives shipped, HelioSeal technology allows for higher capacities and lower power on large storage arrays. And now on its 5th generation design, HelioSeal technology is field-tested and proven to deliver high capacity, reliability, and power efficiency you can trust. HelioSeal is a key technology on 10TB capacities and above.

Vibration Protection
Enhanced Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) technology uses sophisticated electronics to monitor the drive and correct linear and rotational vibrations in real time for improved performance versus traditional desktop drives in high-vibration environments.

Dynamic Fly-height Technology
Each read-write head's fly height is adjusted in real time to ensure consistent performance for reduced errors and optimized reliability.

Dual-stage Actuator Technology
Ultrastar drives feature a dual-stage actuator head positioning system for a high degree of accuracy. The primary stage provides course displacement while the secondary stage uses piezoelectric motion to fine tune the head positioning to a higher degree of precision.

Compatibility testing
All Ultrastar hard drives are extensively tested across a variety of popular OEM storage systems, SATA controllers, and host bus adapters to ensure ease of integration for a plug and play solution.

Reliable and High Performance for Read-Intensive Workloads

Edge Computing and operating system boot operations require high performance and reliable storage. Edge computing - content delivery (CDNs), online gaming content, IoT, data analytics - is heavy on data reads. Rapid operating systems boot performance is critical for public cloud services to quickly launch computing instances. Large-node compute clusters need rapid boot performance for boot times and rebooting.

Western Digital CL SN720 is a purpose-built NVMe M.2 form factor for the specific requirements of boot and edge workloads. Reliable read performance, power efficiency, data security standards support, and remote management ability are some of the key attributes.

High Performance for Boot and Edge

Performance

330,000 random read IOPS 2,700 random write IOPS 3,250 sequential read MiB/s 1,400 sequential write MiB/s

Power Consumption

Avg. Max Read/Write 5.5W

Security

Instant Secure Erase (ISE), TCG Opal 2.01 Self Encrypting Drive (SED)

Reliable and High Performance for Read-Intensive Workloads

Edge Computing and operating system boot operations require high performance and reliable storage. Edge computing - content delivery (CDNs), online gaming content, IoT, data analytics - is heavy on data reads. Rapid operating systems boot performance is critical for public cloud services to quickly launch computing instances. Large-node compute clusters need rapid boot performance for boot times and rebooting.

Western Digital CL SN720 is a purpose-built NVMe M.2 form factor for the specific requirements of boot and edge workloads. Reliable read performance, power efficiency, data security standards support, and remote management ability are some of the key attributes.

High Performance for Boot and Edge

Performance

330,000 random read IOPS 2,700 random write IOPS 3,250 sequential read MiB/s 1,400 sequential write MiB/s

Power Consumption

Avg. Max Read/Write 5.5W

Security

Instant Secure Erase (ISE), TCG Opal 2.01 Self Encrypting Drive (SED)

Reliable and High Performance for Read-Intensive Workloads

Edge Computing and operating system boot operations require high performance and reliable storage. Edge computing - content delivery (CDNs), online gaming content, IoT, data analytics - is heavy on data reads. Rapid operating systems boot performance is critical for public cloud services to quickly launch computing instances. Large-node compute clusters need rapid boot performance for boot times and rebooting.

Western Digital CL SN720 is a purpose-built NVMe M.2 form factor for the specific requirements of boot and edge workloads. Reliable read performance, power efficiency, data security standards support, and remote management ability are some of the key attributes.

High Performance for Boot and Edge

Performance

• 330,000 random read IOPS
• 2,700 random write IOPS
• 3,250 sequential read MiB/s
• 1,400 sequential write MiB/s

Power Consumption

• Avg. Max Read/Write 5.5W

Security

• Instant Secure Erase (ISE)
• TCG Opal 2.01 Self
• Encrypting Drive (SED)

Hyperscale Data Center Flash Storage

Cloud Service Providers need to manage transactional and mixed workloads - databases, email/collaboration, Linux containers - to satisfy consumer cloud services like ecommerce and enterprise-oriented XaaS offerings. In order to offer database and application performance tiers of service, while controlling infrastructure costs, service providers need to increase compute-storage density for efficient data center utilization.

CloudSpeed Ultra™ Gen. II SATA SSD

Optimized for latency-sensitive application and mixed-use workloads for predictable random I/O write performance, this flash storage solution works within existing infrastructure - SATA interface - and can replace hard disk drives for lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and better data center efficiency through server consolidation.

CloudSpeed Ultra™ Gen. II SATA SSD for Elastic Infrastructure

Cloud Service Providers and software-defined storage vendors who need an elastic infrastructure to effectively manage transactional workloads, such as databases and applications, can leverage CloudSpeed Ultra™ Gen. II SSD for low-latency application demands while controlling infrastructure costs. CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II SSD provides price/performance leadership with up to 1.6TB2 SATA SSD to enable low-latency application performance for data center infrastructure cost reductions through server consolidation.

Databases, Linux Containers and Server Virtualization

Open source databases that power e-commerce micropayments, "In-App" purchases, and other transaction-oriented workloads. Poor response times mean lost revenue and tarnished brands. Database instances based on Linux containers or hypervisors can meet performance requirements when leveraging SSDs optimized for random write performance.

Email and Collaboration

Cloud-based collaboration has time-sensitive elements where lower latency SSDs performance can enable teams to foster better innovation or uncover greater productivity efficiency.

Web Servers

Heavy web traffic and concurrent connections supported by higher-performing SSDs enable hyperscale architectures to support volumes of content delivery.

Open Source Software

Standardizing on web architectures based on open source software is critical for today's most popular web properties. Write operations and server node density of open source software solutions stand to gain a lower total cost of ownership by leveraging performance density of SATA SSDs that are up to 1.6TB of usable capacity.