Western Digital introduced its new 14TB Ultrastar DC HC530 hard drive — the highest capacity hard drive based on CMR (conventional magnetic recording) technology.
The new drive, which is based on the company’s fifth-generation HelioSeal technology, is designed for public and private cloud data centers where storage density, watt/TB and $/TB are critical parameters for creating the most cost-efficient infrastructure. It is available with either 12Gb/s SAS or 6Gb/s SATA interface.
WD already offers 14TB SMR (shingled magnetic recording) drive.
The company noted that Tencent, a leading global Internet service provider based in China is adopting Western Digital’s HelioSeal-based hard drives for their Tencent Cloud data centers.
