Western Digital to unveil 44TB HAMR HDDs in 2026, 100TB in 2030
Western Digital to unveil 44TB HAMR HDDs in 2026, 100TB in 2030
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Western Digital to unveil 44TB HAMR HDDs in 2026, 100TB in 2030
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So I can put a HAMMER2 filesystem on a HAMR drive and then smash it with a hammer?
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You have to also wear parachute pants and yell, “It’s hammer time!”
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Western Digital's first HAMR-based HDDs will be introduced sometime in 2026, with a 36TB capacity for conventional magnetic recording (CMR) and a 44TB capacity for shingled UltraSMR recording.
The company plans to commence volume shipments of its HAMR drives in the first half of 2027.
OK, so the really big numbers are because of SMR. 36TB for the CMR drives is about in the same ballpark as what Seagate's shipping out on their new HAMR drives IIRC, and those are CMR (or CMR-like) right?
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12tb drives are $150. What are you looking for?
Where lol? WD reds are like 300€ here.
Not Seagate 12TBs or SMR because they almost all have a very high failure rate on backblaze (specifically 12TB)
20tb for me which are $400 @ B&H currently. They did recently have a sale so I grabbed some, but I need more to flesh out this synology. Even on sale I had trouble justifying it. I’ll bide my time and get there eventually. I believe (can’t really trust my memory) these used to be down in the lower $300 range which seemed fair.
They just haven’t been dropping prices much at all. Even with newer gigantic drives being made.