Western Digital testing HAMR technology with hyperscale customers

The company states: “Western Digital (WDC) held the company’s Investor Day, announcing a vision and strategy for the future as the planned separation of the company’s Flash business nears its expected completion on February 21, 2025. CEO Designate Irving Tan shared Western Digital’s projection on how the proliferation of AI will impact the HDD industry and the value of data stored. As companies generate and store more data, growing use cases such as text-to-image GenAI workloads, text-to-video applications and a rising demand for massive data lakes to fuel AI models are expected to increase HDD exabyte shipments at a 23% CAGR from 2024 to 20281. Western Digital remains steadfast in addressing the ever-growing data demands of the cloud and enterprise markets, delivering the scalability, TCO and sustainability needed to store the majority of the world’s generated data, which is expected to grow 3x between 2023 and 20282. To meet this demand today and into the future, Tan announced that the company’s HAMR development is accelerating as testing is underway with two major hyperscale customers.”