Western Digital charts the roadmap for HDD technology by providing unique solutions to hyperscale cloud and enterprise customers to achieve sustainability goals and reduce total cost of use

As new applications, use cases, and connected devices proliferate, Western Digital’s fast and reliable enterprise-class hard disk drives (HDDs) continue to help data center customers create a more cost-effective, scalable, and sustainable infrastructure.

With the emergence of generative AI and the multitude of innovative applications it enables, the demand for high-capacity, low-power, and reliable storage continues to grow.

Western Digital, It leverages numerous technological innovations—ePMR, OptiNAND, UltraSMR, and more—to deliver memory expansion in scalable, high-reliability products. And it’s launching a new 10-disk 24TB CMR HDD product line for hyperscale, cloud-native, enterprise data center customers.

On the other hand, while 28 TB SMR HDD, which has been sampled since August, continues its rise, the company’s 26 TB SMR HDD exabyte shipments reached almost half of the data center exabytes shipped in the first quarter of fiscal 2024, contributing to Western Digital’s leadership position and momentum in SMR. is available.

These next-generation drives are built on a proven platform with technological innovations specifically designed for data center customers who consistently demand the highest capacity storage to achieve the lowest possible total cost of ownership.

These high-capacity HDDs are also an important step towards ensuring that Western Digital achieves its own sustainability goals and that of its data center customers. Specifically, these 28TB and 24TB HDDs are made from 40 percent (by weight) recycled content and are 10+ percent more energy efficient per terabyte. The fact that HDDs have these features contributes to customers’ data center infrastructure power efficiency targets on a large scale.

28TB Ultrastar DC HC680 SMR HDD

Western Digital ushers in a powerful shift in the cloud data center with SMR HDDs. 28TB new Ultrastar DC HC680 SMR HDDdelivering the highest level of storage density for hyperscale, cloud and enterprise customers.

Designed for sequential write workloads where storage density, watts/TB and $/TB are critical parameters, it is suitable for mass storage, online backup and archive, security camera, cloud storage, storage for compliance, big data storage and where data is rarely accessed. It targets environments like other applications.

For customers optimizing their system stacks to take advantage of SMR, these drives enable the integration of the highest capacity HDDs on the market and scale product offerings with lower power, providing continued go-to-market advantage.

24TB Ultrastar DC HC580 CMR HDD

Featuring advanced OptiNAND technology that continues to deliver innovation at scale Ultrastar DC HC580 24TB CMR HDDthe next big step in data density, allowing data center customers to maximize storage within the same footprint and maximize availability in power-constrained environments.

For better storage density, HC580 supports 612 TB per rack unit in a 4U 102 drive bay solution^oneIt can provide raw storage space up to . These drives also offer higher power efficiency and 12 percent fewer Watts/TB compared to the company’s previous 22TB version.² makes its consumption possible.

Ultrastar DC HC680 and HC580 HDDs are launched for large enterprise customers who aim to offer the highest capacity with lower power per terabyte to design more efficient storage systems and data centers; It is also endorsed by select hyperscalers, CSPs and OEM customers.

Information has been leaked that Touch ID will not be used again, here are the details;

According to a leak heard in China, Apple’s future iPhone It is thought that the models will no longer use fingerprint readers. According to this report Apple‘s a while ago fingerprint reader It is claimed that it stopped all R&D activities and closed its programs for fingerprint reader Introduced in 2022 Apple iPhone SE used in the model and in the future iPhone SE It is expected that the model will not have a fingerprint reader.

Goodbye Touch ID, hello Face ID!

Apple Instead of a fingerprint reader embedded in the screen like almost all Android phone manufacturers, the fourth generation iPhone SE Switching to a full screen design for the new SE to the screen buried face ID technology with is expected to arrive.

Apple Instead of a fingerprint reader embedded in the screen like almost all Android phone manufacturers, the fourth generation iPhone SE Switching to a full screen design for the new SE to the screen buried face ID technology with is expected to arrive.

Everyone for years Apple He was debating whether to bring Touch ID back. However, it has been a long time since the last report on Touch ID technology. It’s now embedded in an improved display from Apple face ID technology It was leaked that he was working on it, but we do not have clear information.

Majin Bu, whose previous leaks turned out to be true, leaked some information about the upcoming iPad Pro series in a tweet he posted a few days ago, stating that he was told about it.

In this text, Apple He says that three iPad Pro models will be introduced next year, two of which have OLED screens. The 11-inch and 12.9-inch models will be the first iPads with OLED displays. Additionally, Majin Bu states that it will introduce a third model that will have a 14.1-inch mini LED screen.

iPad Pro display with mini LED display offers many of the same features as the OLED iPad Pro display

Thanks to mini-LED technology, the screen provides an OLED quality image. With mini-LED, the screen is brighter and the contrast ratio is higher. These screens allow us to see blacks blacker and there is no risk of screen burn-in as with OLED. The current 12.9-inch iPad has a mini-LED display.

It is possible that we will see this iPad model next year. We knew that there were studies on this in 2023, but since an iPad launch is not planned this year, it is possible that it was postponed to 2024.

iPad models that will be available in 2024 come with a powerful and economical chip

Majin In this article; He said that all three iPad models will have 8GB of RAM and come with the new M3 chip. Each of the displays will offer up to 3000 nits of brightness. We also expect Apple to introduce a new aluminum Magic Keyboard for tablets that has two USB-C ports and connects to devices with Magsafe.