Huawei's new magneto-electrical disks promise 90% lower power consumption than HDDs, ability to store tons of archival data

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Huawei is reportedly developing a new archival storage system using magnet-electrical disks that will reduce power consumption by 90% compared to standard hard drives (HDDs). As reported by Blocks and Files, this new system will be released in the 2nd half of 2025 overseas (with a China-specific release date being potentially sooner).

“Huawei’s MED (magneto-electric disk) brings brand-new innovation against magnetic media. The first generation of MED will be as a big capacity disk. The rack capacity will be more than 10 PB and power consumption less than 2 KW. For the first generation of MED,  we will position it mainly for archival storage. It will be released overseas about 2025H1," Dr Peter Zhou, Huawei's president of data storage, told Blocks and Files back in March.