


"Western Digital has a history of hard drive architecture innovations, such as when HGST (now part of Western Digital) first hermetically sealed and shipped helium HDDs in 2013," said Ed Burns, research director for hard disk drives at IDC. Setting a new industry milestone, Western Digital has shipped samples of new nine-disk, 20TB ePMR flash-enhanced drives with OptiNAND technology to select customers. Leveraging industry-first technologies including triple-stage actuator (TSA) and HelioSeal ® technology, the first products featuring the new drive architecture will deliver an unsurpassed 2.2TB per platter, extending capacity gains on proven ePMR technology. OptiNAND technology seamlessly integrates iNAND Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Embedded Flash Drive (EFD) with spinning disk media to enable higher areal density, improved performance and an increase in total reliability. This gives customers – like hyperscale cloud, CSPs, enterprises, smart video surveillance partners, NAS suppliers and more – a solution to meet the exponential growth in data creation by delivering the capacity, performance and reliability needed to store vast amounts of data today and well into the future. Building on the company’s unique ability to innovate with HDD and flash, the new storage architecture with OptiNAND™ technology optimizes and integrates HDDs with iNAND ® embedded flash drives. (NASDAQ: WDC) introduced a new flash-enhanced drive architecture that breaks traditional boundaries of storage. SAN JOSE, Calif., August 31, 2021-( BUSINESS WIRE)-At the company’s HDD Reimagine event today, Western Digital Corp. Company Leverages Core HDD and Flash Capabilities to Help Customers Meet Exponential Demand for Data Storage Innovative Drive Architecture Sets New Areal Density Milestone
