Western Digital this week outlined its future hard disk drive technology roadmap and revealed plans to adopt heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) for its HDDs beginning in late 2026.

Seagate is set to buy a specialist in HAMR HDD production, a move which will be bad news for rivals Western Digital and Toshiba.

To meet this demand today and into the future, Tan announced that the company’s HAMR development is accelerating as testing is underway with two major hyperscale customers.” Published first on ...