Hot Take Western Digital unveils massive 40TB HDD with energy-assisted recording tech — plans 100TB HAMR hard drives by 2029

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Western Digital on Tuesday announced plans to extend its energy-assisted perpendicular magnetic recording (ePMR) technology to 60TB, thus producing ePMR-based hard drives along with its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) for several years down the road to guarantee steady availability of high-capacity drives.
The company intends to release its 40TB UltraSMR hard drive in the second half of this year, with its HAMR-based counterpart following in 2027. By 2029, Western Digital plans to offer 100TB HAMR-based HDDs.

Western Digital unveils massive 40TB HDD with energy-assisted recording tech — plans 100TB HAMR hard drives by 2029

HAMR HDDs to be accompanies by ePMR drives for several years.

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HDD is not going to die soon.

 

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HDD is not going to die soon.

not with today's memory chip prices.

 

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not with today's memory chip prices.

Selling kidney for SSD

 

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Selling kidney for SSD

Inssuficicent funds please include a soul to cover taxes.

I looked at my NewEgg invoice for the PC parts I bought Last May (2025) I paid $275 for 128Gb (2x64) DDR5-6400 CL 36-32-32 RAM. Today it's $1700

Samsung 990PRO 4TB $299

My whole 9800x3d 870E, 128GB RAM, 4TB NVME cost me $900. Now just RAM is twice the price