WD: Preparing for 30TB and Beyond HDD
StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, June 16,2023
Every hard drive that Western Digital Corp. creates requires profound complexity. A single drive combines nearly 300 components from hundreds of international suppliers, requires more than one million lines of code to execute countless host communications, and operates with room for error that's less than 1nm. That's 1-billionth of a meter.
This complexity is crucial for driving business needs - from delivering reliable, affordable digital storage for the New Space Age to empowering creative teams in the world of hybrid work - all at the largest and most data-hungry organizations.
But as the appetite for data grows, so does the taste for larger, faster, and more efficient digital storage. While flash technology has made SSDs the storage media of choice for hot data that requires fast access, the world's information needs affordable, high-capacity storage to scale.