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Inventor Grishma Shah: The Art of Scaling NAND
Grishma Shah thrives on creativity. Initially aspiring to be an artist or architect, Shah instead took a different route. “I realized I don’t have to be in the arts or architecture fields to be creative,” said Shah. “You can apply creativity to anything you do.” Today, Shah is a distinguished engineer at Western Digital. She […]
May 16, 2023 • 5 min read People
How Hooi Bin Lim Chases What’s Next
As director of packaging engineering within Western Digital’s global operations, Hooi Bin Lim operates on a scale of microns or, as she describes, technologies as thin as sheets of paper. An innovator driven to uncover what’s next, Lim is responsible for development and qualification of System-in-a-Package (SiP). A SiP is a component inside a storage device containing […]
September 21, 2022 • 5 min read People
HDD ReImagined: OptiNAND™ Insights from Western Digital Leaders
Western Digital leaders hosted a virtual event, Reimagine HDD, and introduced the company’s breakthrough OptiNAND technology platform.
September 10, 2021 • 3 min read Products
How Western Digital Created OptiNAND™, a New Flash-Enhanced HDD Architecture
To meet increasing demand for digital storage, Western Digital created a flash-enhanced drive architecture that will improve performance, reliability, and increase capacity.
August 31, 2021 • 9 min read Technology
How Data Changed Cycling
Data has revolutionized cycling. It is helping pros and amateurs improve performance, build communities, and increase rider safety.
July 26, 2021 • 5 min read Data
Not Just Talk: How Mobile Storage Keeps Pace with Smart Phones
Storage is the oft-unsung innovation behind every smart phone. How has mobile storage evolved to keep pace with advances in mobile phones?
July 19, 2021 • 6 min read Technology
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Firmware Runs the World, but Who Will Write It? [pt. 1]
Software may have eaten the world, but hardware still runs it. Yet finding those who can engineer firmware is growing harder.
June 21, 2021 • 6 min read Technology
Drive the Future
Technology is helping the automotive industry take the next step forward, and data storage has a large role to play.
April 14, 2021 • 5 min read Technology
This is Different
Data architectures are changing fundamentally and what's next will be different. What can we expect in the coming decade?
November 9, 2020 • 2 min read Technology
Can LSM-Tree & Zoned Namespaces Bring Databases to QLC SSDs?
Adopting QLC SSDs requires addressing the questions of endurance. Here's one way to solve this through the storage engine and writing technology.
July 16, 2020 • 7 min read Data