Western Digital powering the animation industry? You betcha! When you see "Ribbit", you'll know what the Kartun Studios team was using to store and run their 800 terabytes of data during the post-production process here in Malaysia. Here's Chuck Powers, Chief Creative Officer (left) and Kiran Kumar, Head of 3D Animation (right) of Kartun Studios Sdn Bhd, flanking Margaret Koh, Sales Director of WD South Asia. WD sponsored Kartun Studios' storage requirements with a powerful render farm filled with TWO HUNDRED WD Re 4 TB datacenter-grade hard disk drives. That's 800 TB of storage! From the 9th of September until the 1st of March, they rendered the hardest 35 minutes of the movie on the WD Re drives at full load, 24/7 without a single drive failure. That's 174 days, or just over 835 THOUSAND HOURS, of non-stop, full load operation on 200 hard disk drives. While WD Re drives are rated for a mean time before failure (MTBF) of at least 1.4 million hours, it's good to see the Kartun Studios team partially prove it by running the drives in a full load, non-stop environment without even a single drive failure for almost 6 months. Don't forget to check out our review of the phenomenal WD Re 4 TB hard disk drive!
Good move from WD. This is going to give them a lot of PR. I hope they do good. I love their products
