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		Western Digital begins shipping HDDs with up to 22 TB of storage (neowin.net)
		2 points by hggh on July 20, 2022 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

rektide on July 20, 2022 [–]

It'll be interested to see if electrically-assisted Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (ePMR) has a noticable energy cost or not.

Notably this is also the to market release. Drives like tbis probably have been shipping for a bit, to very select customers. Maybe.

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