These days highest-capacity exhausting drives are sometimes geared toward cloud service suppliers (CSPs) and enterprises, however this doesn’t imply that inventive professionals or common customers don’t want them. To cater to calls for of extra common customers, Western Digital has began shipments of its Pink Professional 24 TB HDDs, that are geared toward high-end NAS use for inventive professionals with vital storage necessities.
Western Digital’s Pink Professional 24 TB exhausting drives come roughly 20 months after their 22 TB mannequin hit retail in 2022, providing an incremental enchancment to WD’s highest-capacity NAS and shopper exhausting drive providing. The platform makes use of typical magnetic recording (CMR), function a 7200 RPM rotating velocity, are outfitted with a 512 MB cache, and use OptiNAND know-how to enhance reliability in addition to optimize efficiency and energy consumption. The HDDs are rated for an as much as 287 MB/s media to cache switch fee, which makes them a number of the quickest exhausting drives round (albeit, nonetheless a bit slower in comparison with CSP and enterprise-oriented HDDs).
Identical to different high-end network-attached storage-aimed HDDs, the Pink Professional 24 TB exhausting drives use helium-filled platforms which are similar to these designed for enterprise drives. Consequently, the Pink Professional 24 TB HDD are outfitted with rotation vibration sensors to anticipate and proactively counteract disturbances brought on by elevated vibration and multi-axis shock sensors to detect delicate shock occasions and routinely offset them with dynamic fly peak know-how to make sure that heads to not scratch disks.
What these drives lack in comparison with WD Gold and Ultraster 22 TB and 24 TB drives for enterprises and cloud datacenters is the ArmorCache function that gives safety towards energy loss when write-cache is enabled (WCE mode) and enhances efficiency when write-cache is disabled (WCD mode).
On the reliability facet of issues, Western Digital’s Pink Professional 24 TB HDDs are designed for twenty-four/7 operation in vibrating environments, similar to enterprise-grade NAS with a great deal of bays, and are rated for as much as 550 TB/yr workloads in addition to as much as 600,000 load/unload cycles, which is consistent with what Western Digital’s WD Gold and Ultrastar exhausting drives supply.
As for energy consumption, the WD Pink Professional 24 TB consumes as much as 6.4W throughout learn and write operations, as much as 3.9W in idle mode, and as much as 1.2W in standby/sleep mode.
Western Digital’s Pink Professional 24 TB (WD240KFGX) HDDs are actually transport to resellers in addition to NAS makers, and are slated to be obtainable shortly. Count on these exhausting drives to be barely cheaper than the WD Gold 24 TB mannequin.
