I'd like to see HDDs stay around as competition with SSDs, particularly to keep them in check with reliability (QLC).
I'd like to see HDDs stay around as competition with SSDs, particularly to keep them in check with reliability (QLC).
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>Western Digital this week outlined its future hard disk drive technology roadmap and revealed plans to adopt heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) for its HDDs beginning in late 2026. HAMR will enable the company to build 80TB–100TB HDDs by 2030. Western Digital's first HAMR-based HDDs will be introduced sometime in 2026, with a 36TB capacity for conventional magnetic recording (CMR) and a 44TB capacity for shingled UltraSMR recording. The company expects these drives to be qualified by its customers among cloud data center providers by late 2026, which is when Western Digital will begin its volume production. The company plans to commence volume shipments of its HAMR drives in the first half of 2027.
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From the post:
>>Western Digital this week outlined its future hard disk drive technology roadmap and revealed plans to adopt heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) for its HDDs beginning in late 2026. HAMR will enable the company to build 80TB–100TB HDDs by 2030.
Western Digital's first HAMR-based HDDs will be introduced sometime in 2026, with a 36TB capacity for conventional magnetic recording (CMR) and a 44TB capacity for shingled UltraSMR recording. The company expects these drives to be qualified by its customers among cloud data center providers by late 2026, which is when Western Digital will begin its volume production. The company plans to commence volume shipments of its HAMR drives in the first half of 2027.
I figured we would close to 100TB close to now.
I figured we would close to 100TB close to now.
Yeah, its always by leaps. From 4tb to 16 took a bit but now its basically going 44tb to 100tb in just a couple of years. Imagine all of that being non-spinning disk. Probably need to create new controllers and maybe even protocols to handle the bandwidth.
Yeah, its always by leaps. From 4tb to 16 took a bit but now its basically going 44tb to 100tb in just a couple of years.
Imagine all of that being non-spinning disk. Probably need to create new controllers and maybe even protocols to handle the bandwidth.