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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. What we're taking a look at here is a 1TB hard drive, which is now the minimum recommended capacity, from manufacturer Western Digital. Say hello to the Western Digital My Passport Ultra 1TB Hard Drive. Western Digital Utility Apps Western Digital was kind enough to include installers of their utility apps and program in the portable drive. WD Discovery - Western Digital's main proprietary program for their portable drives. Read more in our articles including "Western Digital to introduce 44TB HDDs by 2026, up to 100TB by 2030" and "Western Digital My Passport Ultra 1TB HDD First Impressions".