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WD Bets 8x Bandwidth Beats More Terabytes as 40TB UltraSMR Starts Shipping

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WD Bets 8x Bandwidth Beats More Terabytes as 40TB UltraSMR Starts Shipping

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Post by rbanffy » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 10:28 AM UTC

WD Bets 8x Bandwidth Beats More Terabytes as 40TB UltraSMR Starts Shipping
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Post by kees99 » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 1:23 PM UTC

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Post by hulitu » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 11:51 AM UTC

SMR ? As in shingle magnetic recording ? 40 TB ? At those speeds you will never be able to fill such a disk.

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Post by rbanffy » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 11:59 AM UTC

hulitu wrote: post #3

SMR ? As in shingle magnetic recording ? 40 TB ? At those speeds you will never be able to fill such a disk.

HDDs are for colder storage that’s not yet cold enough for tape, but infrequently read and written. It takes more than a day to fill one.

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