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Digital technology giant, Western Digital, has unveiled its new 22TB CMR and 26TB UltraSMR hard disk drives (HDDs). The devices are now being tested by select hyper-scale cloud customers.Summary
This article by Anthony Spadafora, writing for TechRadar, makes the following points:
- The Storage giant has unveiled the world’s first 26TB UltraSMR HDD.
- Western Digital’s new ePMR drives leverage the company’s OptiNAND technology to unlock higher levels of capacity.
- While the average consumer likely doesn’t need such a high capacity drive, the new technology could enable providers to bring down the cost of cloud storage for end users.
- Western Digital said its intent was not only to address the capacity demands of the world’s largest cloud titans but to deliver on a roadmap that would also support the evolving economics of their data centres for decades to come.
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References from the Web:
- MAY 2022 Western Digital Announces New Products For Global Storage Markets—Forbes
- MAY 2022 Western Digital Unleashes New Era of Growth for Cloud Market With World’s First 22TB CMR and 26TB UltraSMR HDDs—Businesswire
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