Western Digital NVMe U.2/PCIe Gen3.1 x4 Up to 7.68TB SSDs Gold Family With 3D TLC NAND

Western Digital Corporation (WDC) is enabling SMEs to transition to NVMe storage and improve application performance with an addition to its portfolio of data center NVMe SSDs: the enterprise NVMe SSD in the WD Gold family.

IDC expects NVMe unit shipments to reach more than 79% of the market by 2023 ⁽¹⁾. With advancements in multi-core, multi-threaded CPUs, legacy storage technology has become a bottleneck to maximum application performance.

Shipping in early 2CQ20, the Gold NVMe SSD will be available in 4 capacities to channel partners and end customers. This SSD Series is designed to be the primary storage in servers delivering superior response times, higher throughput and greater scale than existing SATA devices for enterprise applications. These SSDs complement recently launched Gold HDDs by providing a performance storage tier for applications and data sets that requires low latency or high throughput.

The Gold NVMe SSDs are designed with the company’s silicon-to-system expertise, from its 3D TLC NAND SSD media to its purpose-built firmware and own integrated controller. Customers have the reliability for peace of mind that power-loss and data-path protection provide, as well as an extended 5-year limited warranty. Secure boot and secure erase provide customers with additional data-management protections.

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“Pick any industry – the world is being transformed by data. There is transformation and innovation happening across many IT fronts, and across virtually every industry, large and small, and it’s all driven by data,” said Phil Bullinger, SVP and GM, data center businessl. “Transitioning to NVMe is fundamental to unlocking the performance potential of high-speed storage media, enabling new applications, use cases and workloads. The addition of WD Gold NVMe SSDs to our currently shipping high-capacity WD Gold HDDs means channel partners and customers have expanded, robust options to achieve faster time-to-value.“

The company’s data center solutions address a variety of needs in a moving and changing data technology landscape. Its broad data center portfolio includes its family of Ultrastar HDDs and SSDs; WD Gold HDDs and SSDs; OpenFlex NVMe-oF open composable infrastructure; Ultrastar JBOF/JBOD storage platforms; NVMe-oF bridge solutions; and the Ultrastar memory extension drive.

⁽¹⁾ Worldwide Solid State Drive Forecast Update, 2019-2023 (December 2019, IDC Doc #US44492119), $4,500.

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