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. HAMR will enable the company to build 80TB–100TB HDDs by 2030.
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2025
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100TB HDDs by 2030.
Muhahah! Alas! I'll probably won't last long enough to enjoy them.
I'm unconvinced this will lead to a reduction in price of other HDD from a cost per terabyte perspective.
I mean, who needs this amount of storage that isn't a business?