Western Digital targets 100TB disk drives with HAMR and HDMR advancements

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Western Digital targets 100TB disk drives with HAMR and HDMR advancements

Western Digital unveiled an ambitious roadmap for advanced storage technologies at a recent investor day meeting. It plans to leverage two advanced storage technologies in the coming years: heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) and heat dot magnetic recording (HDMR), which are expected to improve data storage efficiency and density in hard...Read Entire Article

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Western Digital sees the future of HDD in HAMR. First models with over 40 TB memory are to be launched on the market in 2027.

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Future hard drives may offer storage capacities of 80TB and even 100TB thanks to magnetic recording technology such as Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR). - on macitynet.it Western Digital promises 80TB and even 100TB HDDs

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Western Digital Aims For 100TB Hard Drives by 2030

Western Digital plans to introduce its first heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) drives in late 2026, with 36TB conventional magnetic recording (CMR) and 44TB shingled UltraSMR variants. Volume production won't begin until the first half of 2027, following qualification by cloud data center prov...

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More than a decade ago, ASTC predicted that hard drives would reach 100 TB by 2025. That hasn't happened yet, but Western Digital is making similar claims using the same technology it mentioned in 2014. Photo by Western Digital It's a thermal magnetic recording technology on a structured medium... The post 100 TB HDD Prediction by 2025 Didn't Come True, But WD Unveiled Technology for Even Higher Capacity Drives first appeared on SE7EN.ws.