Are hard drives back? WD promises 800% speed increase

PCWorld reports that WD expects to dramatically boost HDD performance with 800% speed increases and 40TB capacity drives using advanced SMR, eAMR, and HAMR technologies.

Western Digital Targets 100TB AI Hard Drives As Hyperscale Demand Grows

Western Digital used its recent Innovation Day to unveil AI focused hard drive technologies and a roadmap targeting 100TB+ HDDs by 2029. The company announced qualification of 40TB UltraSMR drives ...

From 40TB to 100TB, WD releases its new hard drive roadmap

WD lays out how Dual Pivot and HAMR could finally push hard drives into the 100TB era ...

Western Digital outlines new HDD capacity, performance and power gains for AI workloads

Western Digital Corp. today unveiled a new customer-centric storage roadmap that it says reinvents the hard drive for ...
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WD Unveils Hard Drive Road Map: 100-TB-Plus Capacity, AI-Focused Innovations

WD unveiled its roadmap to 100-TB-plus hard drives for cloud and AI implementations and introduced new platforms to connect hard drives and flash to enterprise infrastructure.

Western Digital Innovation Event—Storage Is Where AI Goes To Learn

Western Digital’s Innovation Day showed their plans to introduce 100+TB HAMR HDDs with 2X or higher performance by 2029 and ...
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Sony and Seagate to Increase HDD Capacity to 30TB, Aim to Meet Growing Data Center Demands

Sony and Seagate to launch 30TB HDDs, doubling data capacity with new laser diode tech starting May. Sony's $33M investment in Miyagi and Thailand expands HDD production for booming data center demand ...

Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Market Intelligence Report 2026-2031 - 3.5-Inch Drives Contributed 65.62% of Revenue in 2025; Projected to Grow at a 9.29% CAGR Till 2031

The "Hard Disk Drive (HDD) - Market Share Analysis, Industry Trends & Statistics, Growth Forecasts (2026-2031)" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global Hard Disk Drive (HDD) ...