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Western Digital introduces new non-SMR 20TB HDDs with onboard NAND

Enlarge / This isn’t Western Digital’s first 20TB drive—but it is the first shipping drive to achieve that density without the use of Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology. (credit: Western Digital) At Traditional western Digital’s HDD Reimagine Event yesterday, the company introduced its newest hard drive architecture—a hybrid spinning rust/NAND flash design it calls OptiNAND. […]

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Seagate’s new Mach.2 is the world’s fastest conventional hard drive

The key to Mach.2’s increased performance is a second set of actuator arms, which can be positioned independently from the first set. Essentially, this makes a Mach.2 “two drives in one chassis.” (credit: Seagate) Seagate has been working on dual-actuator hard drives—drives with two arms and read/write heads per platter—for several years. Its first production […]

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