WD says generative AI surge will drive storage demand for 40TB HAMR-based HDDs in 2026

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Western Digital plans to launch a 40TB mechanical hard drive based on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology by the end of 2026, with the ultimate goal of achieving a capacity of more than 100TB. It is currently transitioning from ePMR to HAMR technology and plans to adopt HDMR technology in the future to achieve higher capacity storage.

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News extracted from HD Technology. Visit www.hd-tecnologia.com for the latest news. What was once considered technological garbage, now becomes a strategic resource. Western Digital and Microsoft have demonstrated this, that in a joint pilot project they managed to recover gold and rare earths from HDDs in disuse of their data centers. Best? All this was done without using toxic chemicals and with an efficiency that even surprised experts in the…