Western Digital touts world's first microwave-assisted magnetic recording hard-disk drive

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WD claims MAMR hard disk drives will enable 40TB capacities by 2025 - if you're still using conventional disk drives by then

Western Digital has revealed what it claims is the world's first microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) hard-disk drive, and suggested that the disk-drives using the technology will be out du...

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