Western Digital Releasing Ultrastar 20 TB Drives Next Quarter

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Serve the Home has learned that Western Digital is planning to release its massive Ultrastar 20 TB drives by September. “These are drives that are not yet in GA status, but the company says it hopes to have the WD Ultrastar DC HC650 20TB host-managed SMR drives available in its storage servers and JBODs ‘next quarter,’ which would be (calendar) Q4 2020,” wrote the site.



That’s a lot of storage! It’d be a shame if one of these failed (which shouldn’t be an issue, since you are making proper backups, right?), but they’re going to be an exciting prospect for those who want to streamline and consolidate their media servers.



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[Burticus]

I'll take four, thanks

 

[Grimlakin]

If the price is right getting a enclosure to handle a batch of these would be a nice hunk of storage.