Western Digital has today presented its latest effort to catch up with traditional QLC NAND Flash SSDs by improving its HDD offerings. With the latest High-Bandwidth HDDs, Western Digital has implemented two new technologies in a classical multi-platter HDD design. The first innovation comes in a fo...
More like the complexity and precision needed to make it work, at mass produced volumes. But I guess you could translate that to feat of unreliability.
Undoubtedly going to have a higher failure rate, however in my experience WD’s enterprise drives are extremely high reliability regardless.
Once these hit the surplus market in ~5 years they’ll be neat (if we get them in SATA) for ZFS RAID arrays; faster rebuild speeds will be nice.
I already pre-bought drives for the replacement / expansion of my ZFS pool as the current drives fail so I’m locked into old technology for likely many years. 😔