Western Digital has long been at the forefront of game-changing data storage innovation. From the invention of the first hard drive to recent advancements in 3D NAND, our journey of innovation continues.
While networking challenges often come to mind when considering video related services, video streaming can only be as good as the performance of the system memory and storage subsystems used to deliver it. Western Digital’s expertise in storage devices and storage system designs can help unlock high performance and quality of service for video data ingest and delivery.
Western Digital builds its products using open standards such as SCSI, ATA, and NVM Express® (NVMe™). These open storage standards foster system design and implementation innovations by enabling multiple vendors to create interoperable solutions. Western Digital joined the Streaming Video Technology Alliance because we believe that defining best practices and specifications for video delivery is a natural extension to storage standards, enabling the interoperability of video optimized storage devices with systems delivering high-quality video at scale.
Positive interactions between the standards governing the interfaces of different system components can emerge from the SVTA work. For instance, a service may benefit from using storage features such as the ATA Native Command Queuing (NCQ) command priority control or the SCSI/ATA Command Duration Limits feature set. These features enable traffic latency characteristics to be assigned to storage access commands, enabling the storage device to better optimize command scheduling according to command deadlines or priority. This optimized scheduling, can enable SLA/QoS guarantees for the Open Caching and Edge Storage frameworks as defined by the SVTA.
