Something to anticipate: Simply a number of weeks after Western Digital launched its very first 20-terabyte hard disk, its CEO spoke at a conference where he set out a few of its future strategies. They consist of information on the innovation Western Digital prepares to utilize in the future to press storage capability even further.
At the yearly Wells Fargo TMT Top today, among the topics Western Digital CEO David Goeckeler discussed was the business’s method to innovations like OptiNAND, SRM, and HAMR. Goeckeler considers all 3 essential to increasing density and getting to ever-larger hard disks.
In 2015, Seagate shipped out its 20TB hard disks, which utilize HAMR to choose information center consumers. Last month, WD launched its own 20TB drives to basic customers (presently offered out) with OptiNAND innovation, which utilizes flash memory to keep metadata.
” We’re greatly purchased HAMR,” he stated. “HAMR is going to be genuine, it’s going to remain in the future,” Goeckeler stated.
HAMR will increase the durability of hard disks however will likewise need a great deal of software application work and will not be advertised for a number of years.
WD and Seagate both wish to get to 30TB by the middle of the years, and Seagate means to reach 100TB by 2030. Goeckeler believes WD currently has the stepping stones to arrive with ePMR (energy-assisted storage), SMR (another density-increasing technique), and OptiNAND.
” I believe SMR is going to get more genuine and consumers are getting more genuine about it,” the WD manager stated.
Among those actions might be 22TB hard disks in 2022. WD’s existing high-capacity HDD utilizes 9 plates, with 2.2 TB per plate. Goeckeler states they can launch one with a 10th plate.
One innovation Goeckeler does not point out is MAMR. Western Digital proposed the innovation in 2017, stating it might enable 40TB hard disks by 2025.
