Western Digital (WD) is now shipping a new series of 24TB CMR HDDs for hyperscale, cloud, and enterprise data center customers, marking a significant advancement in the storage technology landscape. In addition, WD is also ramping up the new 28TB SMR HDD, as the 26TB model has reached nearly half of its data center exabytes

Seagate has expanded its Exos X lineup with the Exos X24 hard drive, boasting a remarkable 24TB storage capacity. Aimed at hyperscale customers and enterprises running scale-out data centers, the Seagate Exos X24 sets a new benchmark for rack-space efficiency and total cost of ownership. The 3.5-inch 7200 RPM nearline drive leverages helium technology and

Seagate has announced the IronWolf Pro 22TB HDD at the NAB 2023 conference, making it the company’s highest capacity conventional magnetic recording (CMR)-based HDD.

The WD Red Pro drives are created specifically for medium or large-scale business customers, supporting up to 24-bay NAS systems and built to handle heavy workloads in 24×7 environments. Looking at the WD Red Pro 22TB model for this review, these drives are perfect for archiving, sharing, and rebuilding RAID arrays on extended operating systems

Seagate has updated its lineup of dual-actuator hard drives (named MACH.2) with the Seagate Exos 2X18. First shipped in 2019, these HDDs owe their speedy performance to its twin actuators via the MACH.2 technology, quoting up to double the performance of competing enterprise single-actuator 3.5-inch hard drives. This makes them ideal for environments like hyperscale

Initially announced back in May, the WD Gold 22TB is the company’s newest CMR HDD with OptiNAND technology. This massive capacity model is specifically designed to lower TCO for organizations, as they can add more capacity to their data centers without affecting the physical footprint (or have the same capacity at a lower physical footprint).

The SkyHawk AI 3.5″ HDD is the latest enterprise hard drive by Seagate optimized for network video recorders with artificial intelligence for edge applications. Offered in a variety of capacities up to 20TB, the industry’s highest capacity, the Seagate SkyHawk AI is designed to be great for large video and surveillance.

Seagate has announced the launch of the new SkyHawk 20TB HDD, a high-capacity drive solution for AI-enabled video imaging and analytics systems. The new drive is specifically designed for network video recorders (NVRs) enabled with AI for edge security applications.

Western Digital has announced that the WD Red Pro 20TB CMR HDD is now available, adding to their previously released 20TB Gold and Ultrastar DC HC560 HDDs. Optimized for NAS enclosures (up to 24 bays) and purpose-built for high-intensity workloads in 24/7 environments, the new WD Red Pro line features OptiNAND technology for more efficient