Western Digital has updated two of their 20TB HDD lines, the Ultrastar DC HC560 and WD Gold, with OptiNAND. This high-capacity, 9-disk platform (2.2TB/platter) with CMR recording format drives offer drop-in simplicity to meet customers’ growing storage demands. WD also indicates that both drives feature a few industry-first technologies like energy-assisted magnetic recording (EAMR), triple-stage

Western Digital (WD) has announced the OptiNAND flash-enhanced drive architecture at the company’s HDD Reimagine event held today. This new technology optimizes and integrates HDDs with integrated NAND (iNAND). This new class of embedded flash drives, allows customers to meet the exponential growth in data creation, both today and in the future. Let’s be clear

At the company’s analyst event in February of this year, Seagate discussed their lineup of dual-actuator hard drives, a technology dubbed MACH.2. These drives have been shipping since 2019 and Seagate now has over a dozen customers using or trialing the technology. When combined with HAMR, these drives have the potential to both be very

Today Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation announced new 18TB HDDs in its Toshiba MG09 Series. According to the company, the MG09 Series features Toshiba’s third-generation, 9-disk Helium-sealed design, and Toshiba’s innovative Flux Control – Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (FC-MAMR) technology, to advance Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) density to 2TB per disk, achieving a total

The Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB is the company’s highest capacity NAS drive designed for always-on, always accessible 24×7 usage, marking an impressive 2TB gain from last year’s model (which significantly increases a user’s net capacity in larger NAS solutions). With this massive capacity point and focus on reliability and endurance, the company’s new 18TB drive

Today Seagate Technology plc announced yet another high capacity HDD in the Seagate SkyHawk AI 18TB. Like the earlier entries in the line, the latest is also purpose-built hard drive for artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled Surveillance solutions, enabling quicker and smarter decisions. The newer drive is all about the expanded capacity and is shipping today.

Today, Western Digital (WD) announced additions to its family of WD Purple storage solutions. The new additions consist of an 18TB HDD and a 1TB microSD, both due out later this year. The gold line got 18TB HDDs a few months ago as well. Western Digital was founded 50 years ago as General Digital. Since

Today, along with their updated Purple drives, Western Digital has announced two new massive HDD releases, the WD Red Pro 16TB, and 18TB drives. Purpose-built for medium to large-scale business customers and support for up to 24-bay NAS systems, the new Red Pro drives are engineered with CMR recording technology at 7200RPM, allowing them to

Today, Seagate released the Exos X18 enterprise drive. The Exos X18 is the largest Seagate Exos X HDD drive to date with a listed capacity of 18TB. Seagate has been operating since 1979. The company is one of the most widely known manufacturers of HDDs and SSDs.