western digital hdd

Western Digital Philippines has partnered with YugaTech to giveaway a couple of terabyte hard drives to our readers and fans. As a gesture of appreciation to our new sponsor, don't forget to add Western Digital on Facebook here. Western Digital has unveiled its future roadmap for higher-capacity hard disk drives (HDD), eyeing to adopt a new technology called Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) in its drives by late 2026. Western Digital will launch its first HAMR-based drives in 2026, offering 36TB using conventional magnetic recording (CMR) and 44TB with shingled UltraSMR recording. Currently, two large cloud service providers are already testing the HAMR drives, although Western Digital hasn’t disclosed the drives' capacity or specific technology. Irving Tam, CEO of Western Digital, explained at the company’s investor call that they will begin with 36TB and 44TB models, and customer testing will wrap up by the end of 2026. Our friends from Western Digital in the region is holding another contest and I'd like to invite our readers here to join in. Prizes include Western Digital HDDs and tickets to cool destinations like Maldives, Bali or Phuket. Read more in our articles including "YugaTech-Western Digital HDD Giveaway" and "Western Digital to introduce 44TB HDDs by 2026, up to 100TB by 2030".