Western Digital Shipping 24 TB And 28 TB Nearline Drives
Blocks&Files, Thursday, November 16,2023
Seagate's 24/28 TB lead lasted just four weeks because Western Digital is now also shipping 24 TB CMR and 28 TB SMR disk drives.
The new products are the Ultrastar DC HC580 conventional magnetic recording (CMR) and DC HC680 shingled magnetic recording (SMR) drives. They are an evolution of the existing DC HC570 22 TB CMR and DC HC670 26 TB SMR products announced in May 2022. They are comparable to Seagate's Exos X24 CMR and Exos X28 SMR products.
Western Digital's Ashley Gorakhpurwalla said in a statement: 'New and existing endpoints from industries, connected devices, digital platforms, AI innovations, autonomous machines and more create a staggering amount of data each day. This relentless creation of data ultimately finds its way to the cloud, which is underpinned by our continued advancements in HDDs.'