Western Digital Stuns Storage Industry with MAMR Breakthrough for Next-Gen HDDs
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11925/western-digital-stuns-storage-industry-with-mamr-breakthrough-for-nextgen-hdds [www.anandtech.com]
2017-10-12 21:18
Western Digital’s ​Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAMR) drives use platters very similar to those in the current-generation PMR drives*. This means that the innovation to enable MAMR is mainly to do with the heads that perform read and write operations.
Production-level HDDs based on MAMR technology are expected to start shipping in 2019.