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.

Tan said that Western Digital could already build HAMR drives with 40 TByte today. However, this would not be economically viable; the company only wants to produce one million such hard disks per ...

To meet this demand today and into the future, Tan announced that the company’s HAMR development is accelerating as testing is underway with two major hyperscale customers.” Published first on ...

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 ...