WD expands AI-optimised portfolio
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Hyderabad: Western Digital recently unveiled a new customer-centric storage roadmap, including the new world’s highest 40TB UltraSMR ePMR HDD, currently in hyperscale qualification with volume production planned for the second half of 2026. The company also unveiled breakthrough innovations including High Bandwidth Drive technology delivering 2x bandwidth, Dual Pivot design enabling up to 2x I/O performance, and power-optimised HDDs using 20 per cent less power – all addressing the explosive data growth driven by AI workloads. As AI adoption accelerates across industries, demand for scalable, cost-efficient storage continues to rise. The company’s latest innovations address capacity, performance, power efficiency, and simplified deployment — without disrupting existing infrastructure. The company's accelerated roadmap also extends ePMR to 60TB aby leveraging HAMR innovations without increasing power consumption, while HAMR will scale to 100TB by 2029.
