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thewayneFirst, the good.
WD announces that they have a design for a new hard drive with "14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD ... with 140 TB and beyond"!!!
A HUNDRED AND FORTY TERABYTES IN ONE DISK DRIVE!
I think I may have found a backup solution for my eventual Jellyfin RAID system!
HAMR stands for Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording, I don't know exactly how that's implemented. But the other thing that's interesting is the FOURTEEN PLATTERS. Fourteen little discs in a 3.5" form factor? Mind goes POOF. This isn't expected until 2030, which isn't that far away. And I'm sure this is more a data center-oriented drive. But their roadmap is for 60 TB drives in the near-term, which is also quite useful.
Sadly, the article is behind a paywall.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/western-digital-details-14-platter-3-5-inch-hamr-hdd-designs-with-140-tb-and-beyond
Now, the bad.
This next article is from a month ago. Approximately 45 days into the year. Keep that in mind.
And we can thank AI datacenters for this one.
I'm just going to quote a line from the article: "...according to WD's CEO, Irving Tan, the manufacturer's entire capacity for this year is booked out."
THE ENTIRE YEAR IS SOLD OUT, 45 DAYS INTO THE YEAR?!
GUH.
So expect shortages and price increases if you need to buy HDs.
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/
WD announces that they have a design for a new hard drive with "14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD ... with 140 TB and beyond"!!!
A HUNDRED AND FORTY TERABYTES IN ONE DISK DRIVE!
I think I may have found a backup solution for my eventual Jellyfin RAID system!
HAMR stands for Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording, I don't know exactly how that's implemented. But the other thing that's interesting is the FOURTEEN PLATTERS. Fourteen little discs in a 3.5" form factor? Mind goes POOF. This isn't expected until 2030, which isn't that far away. And I'm sure this is more a data center-oriented drive. But their roadmap is for 60 TB drives in the near-term, which is also quite useful.
Sadly, the article is behind a paywall.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/western-digital-details-14-platter-3-5-inch-hamr-hdd-designs-with-140-tb-and-beyond
Now, the bad.
This next article is from a month ago. Approximately 45 days into the year. Keep that in mind.
And we can thank AI datacenters for this one.
I'm just going to quote a line from the article: "...according to WD's CEO, Irving Tan, the manufacturer's entire capacity for this year is booked out."
THE ENTIRE YEAR IS SOLD OUT, 45 DAYS INTO THE YEAR?!
GUH.
So expect shortages and price increases if you need to buy HDs.
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/
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Date: 2026-03-29 10:20 am (UTC)Hugs, Jon