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Huawei sidesteps US sanctions with new MED storage that fuses SSD and tape | First-gen 72TB MEDs use just 10% of the power required by HDDs
Unveiled earlier this year, MED is Huawei's gambit to replace conventional HDDs entirely with a hybrid drive that combines the speed of solid-state drives with the capacity...
As reported by Blocks & Files, it fuses these technologies into a single sealed enclosure with the aim of killing two birds with one stone: bypassing US export controls while advancing data center storage capabilities. Data written to the MED first lands on the SSD for fast cached access, then gets sequentially streamed to the onboard tape for long-term archival storage. The roadmap reveals plans for a shrunken 3.5-inch MED form factor in 2026 or 2027 that will pack shorter but higher-density tape media.
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