Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs ...
1 day ago · New lasers These edge-emitting lasers are efficient enough to make HAMR possible, but are mechanically and optically constrained, according to Ahmed Shihab, chief product …
Western Digital Plots a Path To 140 TB Hard Drives Using ...
1 day ago · Western Digital Plots a Path To 140 TB Hard Drives Using Vertical Lasers and 14-Platter Designs (tomshardware.com) 32 Posted by msmash on Thursday February 05, 2026 …
Western Digital Innovation Event—Storage Is Where ... - Forbes
3 days ago · Western Digital’s Innovation Day showed their plans to introduce 100+TB HAMR HDDs with 2X or higher performance by 2029 and filling multiple AI data center storage tiers.
Western Digital Plots a Path To 140 TB Hard Drives Using ...
Western Digital Plots a Path To 140 TB Hard Drives Using Vertical Lasers and 14-Platter Designs: Western Digital this week laid out a roadmap that stretches its 3.5-inch hard drive platform to …
Astonishing 32TB hard drive uses lasers to heat and cool ...
Dec 18, 2024 · Tom’s Hardware notes that Western Digital is using similar tech known as energy-assisted perpendicular magnetic recording (ePMR) to offer its own 32TB drives. This also …
Seagate uses tiny lasers to create world’s first 16TB hard ...
Dec 3, 2018 · Storage hardware giant Seagate has successfully used tiny lasers to increase the capacity of a traditional 3.5-inch hard drive to 16TB.
Future optical disks could store hundreds of terabytes
Feb 23, 2024 · Optical discs that can store up to 200 TB of data could be possible with a new technology developed in China. If commercialized, it could revive optical media as an …