The growth and prevalence of cloud services has set the stage for the increasing dissemination of different types of storage services for different types of data storage needs. In addition to data protection and archival storage services, wider use of surveillance camera systems, a rise in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), and the next wave of edge computing using a 5G networks, will all spur exponential growth in the volume of data generated and data under management. To meet these varied and expanding storage needs, demand for high-capacity nearline-class 3.5-inch hard disk drives (HDDs), for cloud- and core- data centers is increasing.