New 3.5-inch Nearline Drives Provide Leading Capacity, Highest Reliability for 24x7, 100% Duty Cycle Operating Environments
Kuala Lumpur – 8 October 2012 – WD®, a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), and a leader in the mobile, desktop, high-capacity enterprise and consumer markets for hard drives today announced it is further expanding its enterprise-class storage offerings with the release of new WD RE SAS and WD RE SATA hard drives in capacities up to 4 TB, the largest on the market today. Available immediately in 1 TB, 2 TB, 3 TB and 4 TB capacities for nearline SAS and 2 TB, 3 TB and 4 TB for SATA, the 3.5-inch WD RE SAS and WD RE SATA hard drives offer the powerful combination of enterprise-class features and superior capacity to meet the growing demands of conventional business-critical environments as well as the high-capacity and performance requirements of cloud and scale-out computing.
“Given the insatiable need for storage capacity across all market segments, WD is offering both SAS and SATA interfaces for the WD 4 TB RE hard drives to best support both private and public clouds,” said Margaret Koh, WD Sales Director, Asia South. “WD continues to pioneer the capacity-optimized 3.5-inch market segment, in particular, and the WD RE SAS and SATA 4 TB drives are designed, tested and optimized for enterprise storage and applications, enabling 33% greater capacity than previously available drives and up to 2.4 PB of raw capacity in a single enterprise rack.”
“High density storage, low power consumption, and reliability are crucial for Cloud, Big Data, and data center infrastructures and services,” said Andy Morgan, senior director of Storage Platforms at Xyratex. “Through the early qualification of our partner’s enterprise products like WD for compatibility with our own OneStorTM solutions, we are providing our OEM customers a means to address these requirements and profit from these growing markets.”
Features of the new WD RE SAS and WD RE SATA hard drives include:
• Dual port, full duplex connectivity: Ideal for leading business-critical enterprise topologies.
• 1.4M hours MTBF / 1.2M hours MTBF: Provides the highest level of reliability for 24x7 and up to 100% duty applications, for the WD RE SAS and SATA, respectively.
• Planet friendly: RoHS compliant, halogen reduced components.
• NoTouch™ ramp load technology: Recording heads never touch the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to recording heads and media as well as better drive protection in transit.
• Dual Stage Actuation (DSA) and Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF™): Best in class operation and performance when drives are used in vibration-prone, multi-drive chassis.
• Highest Capacity: Perfect for maximum capacity enterprise storage solutions, such as scale out, cloud storage, RAID arrays, and NAS; a massive 2.4 PB of available storage (with 10 4U, 60 bay enclosures).
• Highest Reliability: 5-disk platform, 800 GB per platter, SAS-interface, 6 Gb/sec transfer rates built for high performance 24x7.
Price and Availability
Shipping now through distributors – Achieva Technology Sdn Bhd, Amble Action Sdn Bhd and Eternal Asia (M) Sdn Bhd, and select resellers in Malaysia, the 3.5-inch WD RE SAS and WD RE SATA hard drives are covered by a five-year limited warranty.
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WD RE Enterprise Hard Drives
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Model Number
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Capacity and Features
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MSRP (RM)
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WD4001FYYG
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4 TB, SAS 6 Gb/s
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RM 1,499
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WD3001FYYG
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3 TB, SAS 6 Gb/s
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RM 1,149
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WD2001FYYG
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2 TB, SAS 6 Gb/s
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RM 799
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WD1001FYYG
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1 TB, SAS 6 Gb/s
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RM 459
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WD4000FYYZ
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4 TB, SATA 6 Gb/s
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RM 1,429
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WD3000FYYZ
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3 TB, SATA 6 Gb/s
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RM 1,089
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WD2000FYYZ
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2 TB, SATA 6 Gb/s
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RM 729
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