Unveiled earlier this year, MED is Huawei’s gambit to replace conventional HDDs entirely with a hybrid drive that combines the speed of solid-state drives with the capacity.
In context: Huawei has been forced to get creative to maintain its technological edge with tensions running high between the US and China. The telecom giant has been cut off from sourcing critical American hardware like hard disk drives due to its inclusion on the US Entity List, so it decided to take matters into its own hands by developing an ingenious new storage solution called magneto-electric disk (MED).
Unveiled earlier this year, MED is Huawei’s gambit to replace conventional HDDs entirely with a hybrid drive that combines the speed of solid-state drives with the capacity of tape storage. As reported by Blocks & Files, it fuses these technologies into a single sealed enclosure with the aim of killing two birds with one stone: bypassing US export controls while advancing data center storage capabilities.
