 We're here at the Computex 2018, and who are you? I'm Jared Peck with Western Digital, and we're here to talk to you a little bit about the Western Digital Black SSD. The Western Digital Black SSD is one of our newest and fastest SSDs out there. So this is a one terabyte NVMe drive. It goes up to about 3,400 megabytes per second by itself. And one of these is about $399 right now in the US price. 3,400? 3,400 megabytes per second in a single drive. So you think for most things that you're doing, that is going to improve and be faster than anything that you've ever seen on your PC before. But if this is not enough for you, then you can combine a bunch of them. We go up to... We're a storage company, so we like to see where the limits are. So what we've got running here today is, we'd say that you could do one card here with four of them, but what we've actually plugged into this system is two cards. So we have a total of eight drives running in RAID. And in RAID, you can go up to 19 gigabytes per second. That's right. It's almost 20 there. We're talking about actually serious, serious speed. And with that, you can do things like, of course, get into your game quicker, reboot quicker, and do all of those things. But also if you're, even if you're doing things like rendering video, you can take a WD Black drive there and by putting it in, you're gonna be basically able to render 8K video and things like that in virtually real time. So you could do potentially 8K, 120 frames per second, the most advanced cameras that might be out there and start editing videos. And your storage will not be the bottleneck at that point. So this is the way to make sure that your storage is never the thing you're waiting on. Or maybe some very advanced 3D rendering kind of stuff. Absolutely, absolutely. So these are available right now on Amazon? These are available right now on Amazon. And the prices are on the... It's around $3.99 for a one terabyte. And are there like laptops where you can just plug that in? Absolutely, we have a lot of laptops. We've been running some of these around the campus as well. So definitely great for gaming on the laptop or for anything else that you're needing to do at that point. And this kind of board is in the industry, for example, ASUS has one and maybe some, they just combine a bunch of them. They do, and what we've done is we, this is just a way to do a PCI-E splitter basically so that you can combine a bunch of cards together and put it into one slot. And PCI-E supports this high bandwidth? Absolutely, PCI-E even has opportunities in the future to go further. But what we'd say is we think that this is about the fastest I've seen storage ever go. The fastest storage ever. That's what it is. You don't have a fast one, right? Not yet. Not yet. Cool. And what are you showing over here? Over here, we're showing off just some of our partners. This is a great panel with our iBuyPower system and it's one of their optional upgrades where they have an LCD screen that actually has- And it also could have one of those boards in there, maybe? This one is absolutely running our boards inside because all of our systems here are showing off the WD Black NVMe SSD. It's also a nice case. Yes, absolutely. With some red syrup cooling. This is one of the Inman's special custom gaming cases. And so it's an exclusive product that they've got a few of. Nice. What else are you showing over here? So the other things that we're talking about is our portable SSDs. And so with portable SSDs, we really have the opportunity, sorry, we've got the opportunity with the portable SSDs to address different customers and different, to address different needs in the market. So we have our SanDisk brand that we've known for quite a while time. This is a terabyte. That one's one terabyte but it comes in up to two. How heavy is this? Tiny. It's ounces, it's really, really light. And then you get a Type-C? We do have Type-C, but it's a waterproof Type-C too. And so with that, we're really looking at something that's great for photography because you can take it out into the field. If you drop it on the ground, you drop it in a puddle. It's okay, it's going to keep your data safe. Similarly, we have a WD branded product here. And so with our WD branded product, what we're actually doing is, we're actually giving you encryption, hardware encryption, we're giving you backup software. And a lot of the things that you're going to need is more a typical end user or someone who's maybe using it around an office. So really designed to customize for that use. And this can also have two teres? This is also up to two terabytes. And what kind of speeds are we seeing here? Well, with these, we're talking about something that's around 500 megabytes a second. But if you need something, 550 megabytes per second, pardon me. But if you need something a little bit quicker, we actually are showing off as well, our G Drive Mobile Pro. And that's the one that's just a little bit bigger over here. And again, it's NVMe-based. So it's the same kind of technology we talked about on the WD Black NVMe Drive. Our same technology built into instead an enclosure that actually gives you the ability to plug in through Thunderbolt and get 28 megabytes per second, I'm sorry, 2800 megabytes per second, just over one cable there. So that's really, if you need high performance in an external, there's nothing better. This is up to one terabyte? This is up to one terabyte. But it's bigger. A little bit bigger, but it's again designed to use that NVMe drive, so even faster than what you get on the bus. So is this one of those amazing SD card backup solutions? Absolutely, that is one of our newer products as well. That is our WD MyPassport SSD. Got it here if you want to take a look. So previously you had one with four terabyte hard drive, right? What do you have now with the SSD? So what we're doing on the SSD side is we have actually up to, and I don't, if you want to take a look at the port there. It's nicely, it has this bumpy thing, so it has a good durable rubber bumper to give you a lot of shock and impact resistance and drop resistance. But what we've done is we took the, what we had before on the MyPassport Pro, and we've added actually the SSD technology. It makes it a bit faster and it makes it a bit more durable, but it's still designed for that ingestion. So you're out in the field and like the video you're taking right now, your camera gets, you know, your car gets full. You take it out, you put it in. This gives you the ability to go ahead and put that memory directly into the drive, back it up in the field. And then if you want to even work in the field because you take it then and put it in a, you know, you can wirelessly work off of either your phone or your iPad or your laptop just with the content on this drive. And what's the storage up to? This is up to two terabytes. So, we do everything from 250 up to 250 gig to two terabytes. And you can do up to 390 megabytes per second because I tried the four terabyte hard drive version it was around 100 maybe, more or less, right? Which is typical of hard drive kind of speeds. And so what we'd say is if you need something a little bit faster we want to have that solution too but it just depends on the use case for you. So, but the two terabyte is, it would be expensive, right? To have a two terabyte. Two terabyte in an SSD is going to cost a little bit more than a two terabyte in a hard drive. But again, what we'd say is it really depends if you're doing a lot of editing and if you're looking at a lot of content off it's worth it to have something that's a little bit quicker. Is it potentially a new chipset? Faster or a processor that runs the system on there? Similar for a lot of what you're doing on that. It's a little ARM processor. Yeah, a little processor, I'm not, yeah. Yeah, I will check later. But then with a still maybe some few apps potentially some, there's like a community, right? On the internet? Absolutely, and I think one of the coolest things is we've actually done some work with people like Adobe and others to be able to get to where you can actually do some of the editing directly off of here in a raw format. Maybe there's like support for Google Drive or Amazon Drive or something where it can even directly back up. You don't need a computer. Yeah, you can connect directly and have it do those kind of backups as well. Nice, cool, that's awesome. This is really intended that if you're out in the field and you're doing a lot of photography you have a way to do your backup right there and make sure that you're able to work with it. Nice, and it also has a USB host port. I'm hoping it's a USB 3, but I guess not. Maybe we'll see. The USB port. It'd be nice if you could back up to a second thing at the same time. That's not what we're doing yet. Okay, cool, maybe it's more like backing up into this, not up to another. This is their connection back to the computer. But what we do have is we have ports for SD cards and we have ports for others on that front, yeah. And over there you have some more demos. Yeah. So the other thing that we were showing off here is our G Drive Pro. So this is really, once you've taken all the content that you got out in the field and you go back into the studio when you're actually doing video editing, this is your drive for that. This is SSD also. This is SSD, this is one terabyte right for days. So this is a serious high enterprise kind of drive built into a desktop case. Is it one terabyte? This is up to 7.68, so up to almost eight terabytes. Oh, okay. But again, this is gonna scale on cost and performance from that perspective. But again, it'll be 2,800 megabytes per second transfer speeds and you're able to actually work off of the drive and get high performance if you're doing editing involved. Because if we jump just over there, what's the fastest bandwidth on hot drives today? Because you have the Western Digital Hot Drives right here, which one is your fastest one? Well, the WD Black is always the fastest. Everything we do in WD Black is meant to be our fastest products. This is a 7,200 RPM drive. I think it's around, it's 150, no, 200, 250 speeds, probably on a 7,200 RPM drive. So with SSD, it allows 10 times faster. With SSD, it's gonna be significantly faster. But again, it just depends on what you're trying to do with the storage at that point. And here you have some, those are, there's different kind of SSD formats, kind of, right? In one of these, is like multiple of these inside or how does it work? So they're just different layouts on the board, but it's the same technology inside. This is just a two and a half inch form factor. It's great for most end users because if you typically took out a hard drive or replacing another SSD, you already have something with that shape and it's very easy for people to connect. If you've got some of the new thinner and lighter devices, then the M.2 form factor is very good for that. And so it's just whatever works for your particular computer. And the latest ones are using all this 3D technology you were talking about last year? Absolutely. We use a 3D NAND in a wide variety of our products. And that allows for more storage, faster bandwidth? Absolutely. It gives it better endurance, faster performance on a memory side, but also just, you know, easily available supply because that's one of the things that we wanna, you know, we want people to be, have access to. What's the latest micro-SD capacity? There's 400, you don't have 800 yet, right? We don't have 800 yet. I think 400 is the max for the micro-SD. Ahat, over here you're talking about some regular SD cards. So what is industrial? This is more the industrial stuff. So this is more targeted at commercial. So people who are trying to integrate cards into things. This side is more sort of the imaging and so this is more consumers buying things or we'd say, maybe not consumers, but prosumers. Like if you look at an extreme pro UHS card, a half a terabyte card, you're probably really looking at someone who's doing a lot of photography or putting it in a drone or something like that. So, but this, in the UHS-2, the highest capacity is 128 still, right? Yes. You can't get 256 or 512, that's still the UHS-1 with a Sunday swipe, but some other companies are doing more capacity. Why are you not operating yet? Well, I don't want to ask you anything else. Right now, but you are the number one in SD cards. Amazing, actually, right? Yes. In hot drives? Number one or equivalent, yeah. Where does this one there? This is a reader card reader. So this is just a, you plug a USB in one end and it has a compact flash and a SD card and a micro SD card slot. What I'd say in these is that we typically are looking for where the majority of the market is going to be in terms of capacity. So we look at things like, we want to make sure that you have high enough capacity and an extreme pro card to go. When you get into some of the faster things, sometimes you make trade-offs about whether, how fast? This little, it's an industrial EMMC. This card is something that would go into a phone or a tablet or some kind of application. And these are demos of where the storage goes also and the drones and all this. Some other ideas of where in the market this goes into. So you might be doing things where it's an individual media player or a drone or a camera. What's this, Beagleboard has your storage right on there? Storage built in. It's just something that someone could integrate into another sort of device to be able to have all of the storage. This is a new one with a Rockchip Stream 188 and another one right here. This is a NXP. Right. So thanks a lot for all the storage. Thanks. Thank you.