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Addressing
the growing enterprise market for highly
reliable high-capacity storage, WD today
announced it is now shipping the new WD RE3 SATA
hard drives, the company's latest generation of
"RE" family drives. As data centers become
larger and more complex, WD's third-generation
high capacity enterprise SATA hard drives
enhance vibration and shock tolerance and deploy
new electronics to increase performance
approximately 20 percent and by as much 60
percent in high-vibration environments.
"WD has continued to leverage its extensive
experience gained from previous generation
enterprise drives, as well as our
enterprise-class WD VelociRaptor™ drives, to
develop a hard drive perfectly suited for
servers, network attached storage and storage
networks," said Tom McDorman, vice president and
general manager of enterprise storage solutions
for WD. "WD's RE3 family offers the best
combination of enhanced features, superior
reliability, and optimum performance for
enterprise applications."
In line with the WD RE drive heritage, WD RE3
drives feature 1.2 million hours MTBF, native
command queuing (NCQ), time limited error
recovery (TLER), and an extensive and enhanced
testing process to ensure long-term reliability
for demanding enterprise applications.
WD
RE3 Features
· -Dual
processor - Twice the processing power that
results in a 20 percent performance improvement
over the previous generation.
· -RAFF™
technology - Resulting in up to 60 percent
performance improvement over previous generation
drives, WD's fourth-generation RAFF technology
includes sophisticated electronics to monitor
the drive and correct both linear and rotational
vibration simultaneously, in real time for
maximum performance in high vibration
environments.
· -IntelliSeek™
technology - Calculates optimum seek speeds to
lower power consumption, noise and vibration in
active seek modes without degrading performance.
· -Multi-axis
shock sensor - An additional third sensor has
been added to RE3 models to automatically detect
the subtlest shock events and compensates to
protect the data.
· -RAID-specific,
Time-Limited Error Recovery (TLER) - Prevents
drive fallout caused by the extended hard drive
error-recovery processes common to desktop
drives.
· -Third-generation
dynamic fly height - With this next generation
dynamic fly height technology, each read-write
head's fly height is adjusted in real time for
optimum reliability.
· -Thermal
extended burn-in test - Extended burn-in testing
with thermal cycling added to ensure only the
most robust drives are produced as RAID Edition.
· -NoTouch™
ramp load technology - The recording head never
touches the disk media ensuring significantly
less wear to the recording head and media as
well as better drive protection in transit.
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