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QSAN and Western Digital's Immutable Storage Solution Prevents Ransomware: Provides Instantaneous Data Retrieval

December  21 , 2021

Taipei City, Taiwan – December 21, 2021 - QSAN Technology Inc., a leading pioneer in storage solutions, is delighted to announce the newest immutable storage solution featuring Western Digital’s freshly announced Ultrastar 20TB HDD with OptiNAND technology and JBOD with QSAN WORM.

WORM as Trusty Protection Utility

QSAN WORM, which stands for “write-once-read-many,” is a unique built-in protection utility that prevents data from deletion, modification, and ransomware attack by prohibiting both removal and revision of data once written. WORM enables customers to archive files, bookkeeping data, and sensitive records for compliance purposes. SMEs can ensure data integrity and enjoy full protection with this high-security feature.

Western Digital Introduces Large-Capacity Models

WORM means fewer accidents of deletion, but also requires for a much greater expansion of storage since it generates more files during version control. Western Digital’s HDD and JBOD, designed for big data and backups, promote capacity growth without the need for additional servers and put enterprises’ worries of overloading storage to rest.

“The release of OptiNAND revolutionizes the HDD as well as the development of drive technologies. We are always driven to deliver the best solutions to our customers, and are pleased to announce our collaboration with Western Digital,” says Phil Tai, Product Management Director of QSAN.

Western Digital’s latest 20TB HDD with OptiNAND technology reimagines brand new horizons of capacity, performance, and reliability. With a whopping 20TB of storage, WD’s new HDD offers far more capacity than that of a PC, and is suitable for heavy-duty applications such as business databases, smart surveillance, and multimedia.


Ultrastar DC HC560 Product Highlights:

  • Capacity for more than 100MB of data during EPO

  • Random write performance in write cache disabled (WCD) mode approaches that of write cache enabled (WCE) mode

  • In the event of a power outage, OptiNAND securely flushes and retains nearly 50x more customer data than prior generation HDDs that flush data to DRAM.

Along with the HDD, WD’s Ultrastar Data60 Hybrid Storage flaunts its massive capacity distinguishing itself from the average JBOD.

Ultrastar Data60 Hybrid Storage Product Highlights:

  • 4U hybrid JBOD

  • Projected maximum of 1.2PB storage

  • Impressive read and write rates of 6732 MB/s and 6410 MB/s

  • An architecture supporting up to 24 SSDs with HDDs, including dual IOMs for SAS HDDS and a single IOM for SATA

  • 106 3.5” HDD bays

About QSAN

QSAN has been a forward-looking pioneer in the IT industry that is committed to data protection. QSAN creates simple, safe, reliable, and uninterrupted storage services to businesses for all sizes. Our high-cost performance ratio connects the global leaders that help them turn data into creative momentum, build dynamic capabilities for digital transformation, and make flexible strategies to enhance business operations.

We’ve been developing strong relationships with worldwide partners to empower businesses with instant delivering services and comprehensive solutions. High-end-enterprise-level performance and agile management have proven records by thousands of organizations, which are taken seriously by us through any stage of their careers. QSAN aims to make a positive impact on data and become the force of our customers’ success because we believe all businesses deserve the best opportunity.

For more information, please visit: www.QSAN.com