Platters: WD New Disk Drive Tech Hits Lucky 14
Blocks & Files, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
WD, currently shipping 11-platter disk drives, announced, new disk drive technology with up to 14 platters, enabling an up to 27 percent capacity increase.
The company announced this at its Innovation Day event earlier this month, along with high-bandwidth drives. dual-pivot drives, power-optimized drives, and more. We're concentrating on the 14-platter angle here as it opens up the possibility of WD achieving increased drive capacity levels faster than Seagate, it's main competitor.
That's because it will have a less demanding engineering job to increase areal density so as to reach new capacity levels than Seagate, as that company has 10-platter technology