The announcement was made at the companys HDD Reimagine event, with more details given in theaccompanying press release.
Western Digital stated that it strives to meet customer demand for large data storage.
Western Digital states the high level of performance comes from low latency optimizations that require fewer interference refreshes.

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The official name of the 20TB hard drive has not been given.
Samples of the new hard drive have been sent on to a select few companies for testing.

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