Western Digital this week outlined its future hard disk drive technology roadmap and revealed plans to adopt heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) for its HDDs beginning in late 2026. HAMR will enable the company to build 80TB–100TB HDDs by 2030.

I’m unconvinced this will lead to a reduction in price of other HDD from a cost per terabyte perspective.

I mean, who needs this amount of storage that isn’t a business?