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Western Digital to unveil 44TB HAMR HDDs in 2026, 100TB in 2030
But not shipping in volume until 2027.
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. The company expects these drives to be qualified by its customers among cloud data center providers by late 2026, which is when Western Digital will begin its volume production. However, Western Digital then made significant advancements with its write heads and ultimately developed ePMR 2 technology, which enables the company's leading-edge 26TB CMR and 32TB UltraSMR HDDs.
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