WD, a Western Digital company, has unveiled its WD Se line of hard drives, which it claims are the first drives designed for scale-out data centre deployments.
Built on a platform for 24x7x365 data centre operations, the WD Se series is designed for large-scale replicated environments, mid-sized network-attached storage deployment and backup/archiving applications, the company says.
Shipping in capacities from 2TB to 4TB, it adds, the new WD Se hard drives enable users to balance their data growth challenges in multi-drive enclosures without compromising enterprise-class features.
"Today's cloud data centre installations require a cost-effective way to build large-scale storage systems, while maintaining the 24x7 reliability necessary to minimise total cost of ownership," says Richard Rutledge, senior VP of WD's data centre storage business unit.
"WD's utilisation of vast amounts of manufacturing and engineering data has forced us - like many other companies - to use map-reduce methodologies to effectively analyse our data. The WD Se hard drives are used in our own big data centre, where we have gained real-world experience with Apache Hadoop."
According to WD, the WD Se drives also address the fast-growing SME to mid-range network-attached storage market.
Says Kalvin Subbadu, WD components sales manager for SA: "The WD Se range is ideal for the local market as customer data is growing daily and is most evident in data centres where balancing cost-effectiveness and scalability is a challenge."
WD's Se hard drives will be available from select distributors and resellers in Q3.
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