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2021: WD Blue SN570

On October 4, 2021, Western Digital announced the launch of a solution for the growing global creator community - the WD Blue SN570 SSD with NVMe support. The built-in flash drive is a solution for upgrading existing computers or matching the optimal configuration of custom devices.

WD Blue SN570

According to the company, according to an recently published assessment report, more than 50 million people around the world identify themselves as those who build their careers in cultural and creative industries. And since in the modern world development is conditioned by technology, the concept of "creator" is constantly evolving, now covering not only graphic designers and videographers, but also content creators, UI/UX designers, artists and illustrators, entrepreneurs and freelancers, engineers, architects, graduate students and many others.

When the creator makes his way through a large amount of information when implementing the next project that engages him without the rest, access to fast and reliable storage solutions will help him not only optimize his workflow, but also relieve unnecessary psychological stress and allow him to stay in the creative moment for longer. Given the intensity of workloads, today's creative professionals need technology that will keep their creative ideas flying and relieve them of the experiences that may arise from the potential loss of their performance, project bottlenecks, or slow storage speeds.

Complex workloads require proper performance and reliability, and a properly selected storage system can help streamline workflows and optimize productivity. noted Erik Spannyo, Vice President, SSD for Individual and Corporate Customers Sector, Flash Western Digital

Each NVMe SSD WD Blue SN570 comes with a monthly subscription to the Adobe Creative Cloud platform, which gives access to creative applications and services such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Premiere Pro and InDesign.

WD Blue SN570

The main characteristics of the NVMe SSD WD Blue SN570 are:

• NVMe technology: faster creativity, lower power consumption. With read speeds of up to 3,500 MB/s (500 GB - 1 TB models), systems can run up to 5 times faster than Western Digital SATA SSD drives.
• Built-in support: the downloadable Western Digital SSD Dashboard helps monitor the status, available space, temperature, and other features of the disk.
• Slim design: Save space with the NVMe SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 x4 one-way recording drive, suitable for creating a creative machine, whether desktop or laptop.
• Reliability - Protect content with features such as end-to-end data path protection.

The WD Blue SN570 SSD with NVMe support, which comes with a 5-year limited warranty, can be bought from the official Western Digital online store, select retail stores, online stores, resellers and system integrators. Disk capacity - from 250 GB to 1 TB; prices start at $46.99 (minimum recommended retail price).

2013

WD, a division of Western Digital, a manufacturer of drives for home users, announced in the spring of 2013 the start of deliveries of the world's first 2.5-inch hard drives and hybrid drives (SSHD) with a body thickness of only 5 mm. The innovations are designed for use in ultra-thin portable devices and computing systems with a high density of components. The introduced series, which includes compact 500 GB high-speed models, provides a unique balance between capacity, physical size and performance.

new WD Blue line of hard drives with a chassis thickness of only 5 mm, as well as the hybrid SSHD drives of the WD Black series, which are already delivered to OEM manufacturers, will allow our customers to form a wide range of solutions that differ in maximum capacity and high storage density. For end users, this means outstanding performance and efficiency first, "says Matt Rutledge, WD Vice President and CEO of Client Storage. - "To create these ultra-thin hard drives, our engineers had to design them from scratch. These unique models open up completely new opportunities for mobile device manufacturers. "

The products of the WD Blue and WD Black series with a body thickness of 5 mm allow you to create even more compact computer systems: from the previous generation of drives they differ not only in form factor, but also in increased capacity. However, it should be noted that the smaller the size of the device and its thickness, the more vulnerable it is to external influences. Several key engineering solutions and technologies have solved this problem.

Ultra-thin case - extremely small thickness, which is only 5 mm, as well as a compact interface connector, open a wide range of capabilities to developers of computer platforms. In addition, due to its small size, it was possible to reduce the weight of drives by 36 percent compared to standard 9.5 mm hard drives.

Best-in-class acoustic and anti-shock performance - Thanks to proprietary WD technologies, the noise level produced by these hard drives, both during operation and at rest, is significantly reduced. The new 5 mm devices of the WD Blue and WD Black series in working and off states are capable of withstanding shock accelerations up to 400g and 1000g, respectively.

Edge Card technology - Using the miniaturization technologies used to create mobile phones, WD engineers were able to maximize the free space inside the drive housing, expanding the limits of the permissible amplitude of vibrations and thereby increasing its impact resistance.

Edge Card connector - In ultra-thin drives of the WD Blue series, for the first time, a new type of compact connectors SFF-8784 was used. These connectors provide power and data transmission between the SATA controller and the drive.

StableTrac - attachment of the motor shaft at both ends, which allows increasing the efficiency of the accumulator due to high accuracy of positioning of the head unit during reading and writing operations, due to stabilizing the rotation of the plates and reducing the influence of external vibrations.

A dual-drive head positioning system - a mechanism for positioning the heads of a hard disk with two drives allows you to significantly improve the accuracy of placing the head block above the tracks of the disk. The main standard electromagnetic drive moves the unit with normal accuracy. Additional piezoelectric mechanism performs precision alignment of heads with magnetic track on storage plate.

Prices and dates of sale

The launch of sales of devices in Russia and recommended prices will be announced additionally.