HDD
MAMR Breakthrough Exceeds Expectations
Breakthroughs delivering the reliability, manufacturability and affordability to address customer demands. “We broke conventional wisdom to break theoretical limits.” — Brendan Collins Both HAMR and MAMR present their own challenges. HAMR has reliability issues due to the extreme heat utilized in the process and requires several complex and costly changes to drive infrastructure, among other […]
October 11, 2017 • 2 min read Data
Foundational Technologies to Achieve Growth in $/TB Value for Capacity HDD
Helium-sealed technology is just one of three essential pillars that support higher track density. “We have made deliberate and substantial investments in both Damascene and micro-actuation for the past five-plus years to push the limits of areal density.” — Brendan Collins Western Digital has existing technologies that provide the foundation to support increased TPI. The […]
October 11, 2017 • 5 min read Data
Big Data and Fast Data Create a Bifurcation of Technology
As the scale of data continues to increase, and the diversity of application workloads expand, the world will need new data storage technologies and architectures. “We needed to rethink how data is captured, preserved, accessed and transformed.” — Mike Cordano Data is now used in a variety of ways and these different ways create unique […]
October 11, 2017 • 2 min read Data
Pushing Data Center Capacity to New Heights with the Ultrastar Hs14
How we implemented Host Managed SMR with helium technology to provide industry leading 14TB* hard disk drives!
October 3, 2017 • 3 min read Data
HDDs vs. SSDs – What’s Ahead in the Evolution of Storage?
HDDs vs. SSDs - will any device lead the data storage space? Here’s a look at where we are and what’s awaiting us.
August 22, 2017 • 8 min read Data
Have a Heaping Helping of 12TB storage!
Western Digital satisfies the insatiable appetite for data with He12! Introducing the world’s highest capacity hard disk drive. Storing a massive 12,000,000,000,000 bytes of data, it’s built for a data, data, data world.
December 6, 2016 • 3 min read Data
Does Storage break Moore’s Law?
Over the years an exponential gap has grown between the advancements of CPU and memory, and what storage can handle. Hard drive performance is the laggard by simply being too slow.
July 22, 2014 • 5 min read Data