WD calls this Energy-Assisted Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (ePMR). A model with 32 TByte and the overlapping recording method Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) has been announced. WDC intends ...

Western Digital (WD) announced a raft of interesting new storage solutions at the ongoing Future of Memory and Storage Conference (FMS 2024). The products are intended to drive storage forward in ...

Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital voiced support for shingled magnetic recording in 2013, and shipped the first SMR HDD in 2015. In 2016, the drive technology is expected to achieve widespread ...

Right now, two CSPs are already test-driving Western Digital's HAMR-based HDDs, though the company declines to disclose their capacity and whether they are used in the CMR or SMR versions.