MAMR
What is Symbiotics Design™?
The Symbiotics Design™ approach is an integrated approach to our complete technology portfolio, allowing us to create increasingly specialized environments for data to thrive, whether it’s the immediate results from Fast Data or the breakthrough insights and precision from Big Data. Our products and solutions are purpose-built, tuned and optimized for a full range of data-centric applications.
June 28, 2018 • 4 min read Data
How We Made Our MAMR Technology Breakthrough
The announcement of our breakthrough in MAMR technology has stunned the industry. Getting there was not easy. Lenny Sharp shares a behind the scenes look at our path to innovation.
October 20, 2017 • 5 min read Data
Driving the Next Decade of Data Technology Innovations
Flash memory and capacity HDD will continue to coexist, with Western Digital well positioned across the full spectrum of opportunities. “We’re in a strong position to define the future of data-centric compute architectures.” — Mike Cordano As the scale of data continues to increase through Big Data and Fast Data demands, and the diversity of […]
October 11, 2017 • 1 min read Data
A Proven Leader – Our Track Record of Delivering on Innovation
With over 7000 patents in hard drive technology, we have the most powerful storage patent portfolio and are the undisputed units-shipped leader in HDDs. “We plan to deliver the first MAMR hard drive in 2019 to launch a new era.” — Brendan Collins Western Digital has a long, successful heritage in hard drive innovation having […]
October 11, 2017 • 1 min read Data
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
The Need for Energy-assisted Recording Technology
Providing energy-assistance with heat-assisted and microwave-assisted magnetic recording technologies. “MAMR has significant advantages over HAMR in the quest to bring lower cost, high-reliability storage to the data center.” Brendan Collins To expand capacities even further requires that the write head size be reduced, as well as the size of the magnetic grains that store bit […]
October 11, 2017 • 5 min read Data