5 reasons HDDs will continue to dominate enterprise storage in the AI era

By Owais Mohammed, Director of Sales – MEA & India, Western Digital

Enterprises today are grappling with an unprecedented surge in data creation. Every interaction from video and images to logs, sensor outputs, and AI generated content is contributing to an exponential rise in what businesses must store and analyze. As this explosion accelerates, so does the amount of new, inherently unstructured data that dominates enterprise environments. Unlike traditional structured data, unstructured data is expanding explosively, reshaping how organisations architect storage, and plan long-term data strategies.

This is not a marginal shift but a structural one forcing enterprises to rethink how they store, protect and extract value from information at scale. The need for scalable, cost-efficient, high-capacity storage has never been greater, positioning HDDs as a critical foundation of the world’s data economy. Thanks to its unmatched ability to store massive datasets efficiently, HDDs are existential for ...