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WD Advances Next-Generation Trusted Infrastructure with Industry's First Post-Quantum Cryptography Hard Drives

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Western Digital Corporation, the storage foundation of the AI-driven data economy, today announced a significant step in next-generation infrastructure security with the integration of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) into its newest high-capacity Ultrastar UltraSMR hard disk drives. As AI infrastructure evolves from compute-centric deployments to data systems that persistently retain information across every inference, training run, and interact…

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WD, one of the leading storage manufacturers, announces a range of hard drives that support post-quantum. It is the Ultrastar range that integrates a firmware with post-quantum cryptography (PQC). WD's PQC implementation on the new Ultrastar DC HC6100 UltraSMR is designed to protect the trusted chains of devices, from manufacturing to on-site maintenance. This implementation represents much more than a functional improvement: it reflects a deepe…

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Business Wire broke the news in Crystal River, United States on Monday, May 18, 2026.
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