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Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond (www.tomshardware.com)

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/24650125

Because nothing says "fun" quite like having to restore a RAID that just saw 140TB fail.

Western Digital this week outlined its near-term and mid-term plans to increase hard drive capacities to around 60TB and beyond with optimizations that significantly increase HDD performance for the AI and cloud era. In addition, the company outlined its longer-term vision for hard disk drives' evolution that includes a new laser technology for heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), new platters with higher areal density, and HDD assemblies with up to 14 platters. As a result, WD will be able to offer drives beyond 140 TB in the 2030s.

Western Digital plans to volume produce its inaugural commercial hard drives featuring HAMR technology next year, with capacities rising from 40TB (CMR) or 44TB (SMR) in late 2026, with production ramping in 2027. These drives will use the company's proven 11-platter platform with high-density media as well as HAMR heads with edge-emitting lasers that heat iron-platinum alloy (FePt) on top of platters to its Curie temperature — the point at which its magnetic properties change — and reducing its magnetic coercivity before writing data.

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[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Whats the point when the prices for 4-8TB disks are stable the last 5 years? (I think that they are getting higher even...)

[–] stressballs@lemmy.zip 4 points 12 hours ago

Yep. It's absurd. Who spends that much on a 4TB?

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 9 points 18 hours ago

The point is the need for more and more data storage is never going to stop.

[–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

The point is that 8TB are too small, and not enough for my anime.

[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If the price per TB is stable you just buy 2 or 3 disks. It used to be that you buy one disk because by the time you needed more space the price per TB would be dropped a lot (halved even).

[–] remon@ani.social 1 points 7 hours ago

My NAS has a limited number of bays, so buying more low-storage disks isn't a great option.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

"Anime"

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Retaining that much detail on tentacles takes some drive space