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With Western Digital SMR HDDs serving as the storage foundation for its custom-built, multi-exabyte storage platforms, Dropbox will continue its strategic path, taking advantage of the highest storage densities with the lowest TCO without sacrificing data durability and availability for its over 600 million online customers.
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"We are pleased to continue our long-term partnership with Dropbox to help them scale and capitalise on the growing customer demand for cloud services, online storage and remote collaboration tools."
As the industry's first 20TB HDDs, the Ultrastar DC HC650 delivers unmatched TCO for scale-out enterprise and cloud data centers through increased storage density and improved power efficiency. Featuring the highest capacity in the industry, cloud and enterprise customers recognise the benefits of SMR HDDs and are adopting the technology to contend with the massive growth in data.
"When considering exabyte-scale needs, and associated capital and operating cost of the data center, the long-term value in terms of lower cost-per-TB, higher density, low power and high reliability can help benefit the bottom line, they said.
"Several complementary technology innovations are featured in the Ultrastar DC HC650, including the industry's first energy-assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) implementation, the industry's first triple-stage actuator and the fifth generation of HelioSeal technology.
Western Digital SMR HDDs are also an integral part of Zoned Storage, an open-source, standards-based initiative building upon the synergies of SMR HDDs and ZNS SSDs that enables data centres to scale efficiently."
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