WD Ultrastar Memory Drive



This week Western Digital has announced its entry into the In-Memory Computing Segment with introduction and unveiling of the new WD Ultrastar Memory Drive. The drive is drop-in ready and PCIe-device compatible with most Intel x86 servers, available in 1TiB, 2TiB and 4TiB. A 1U server can typically support up to 24TiB of system memory using the Ultrastar DC ME200 drive for in-memory compute clusters.

Supported server interfaces include NVMe U.2 and PCIe AIC (add-in-card) HH-HL, and the Ultrastar memory drive is currently available and sampling with select customers. Ashish Nadkarni, group vice president, IDC explained little more.