Seagate wants to compete, ship to 100TB HDD 2025
Seagate plans to push new magnetic hard drive technologies for the market in the next 5-7 years, which is capable of collecting 100TB data with magnetic drives. This will be a significant improvement from the present day – the current top-end spinning drive holds 14TB, and in the past few years the capabilities have not grown particularly fast. We saw the drive size a little bit above, helped by the arrival of helium, but we have not taken anything like the rates. Price improvement in per-GB has slowed down dramatically, and overall progress has slowed in more advanced ways of writing data to drive the difficulty of moving ahead with vertical recording.
Anyone can give a rational argument that this is the place that adopts helium at the first place. The manufacturer would never have made a great gas in a sealed container as a means to squeeze more platters in the same place as a means to shed a great gas so much time and effort would have been made if they were just starting to dump platters Could. Now, Seagate clearly thinks that it has become a corner with HAMR-Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording – which will allow it to dramatically boost drive capabilities dramatically.
Seagate will launch a traditional vertical drive on 16TB, before it will start deploying HAMR technology on the same drive capacity, which is scaling up to 48TB drive according to Hexus, “at the beginning of the next decade” before reaching the 100TB marker is. As the name implies, before attempting to write on the drive, HAMR heats the drive content for less than a nanosecond. The data can be written in very small magnetic fields and hot materials with very high density, although the technical challenge degree is very high. It is advisable to quote a bit Wikipedia entry in this case:
Initially, the technique was difficult to achieve, because by the end of 2013 there were doubts about its viability. The areas to be written should be heated in a small area – so small that diffraction prevents the use of normal laser-centric heating – and for this heating, writing and cooling cycle less than 1 nanosecond, while repeating on drive platter Controlling the effect of spot-heating, drive-to-head contact, and adjacent magnetic data should not be affected. These challenges require the development of nanoscale surface plasmons (surface-guided laser) instead of direct laser-based heating, new types of glass platterers and heat-control coatings, which can be rapidly without affecting the recording head or nearby contact. Bear spots-heating. Data is needed to overcome a wide range of new ways to rotate the heating laser on the laser, and other technical, development and control issues.
Shipping HAMR drives will be a real technical achievement, even if spinning discs do not love themselves much these days. But it raises an interesting question: Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba have major plans for data centers and in the future of cloud deployment, there will be no doubt that the demand for huge amounts of storage will continue, it is not clear what are the mainstream consumers. The market looks practically for high-capacity drives. The spinners I have, they are still in the 2-4TB range, and I have not really felt for years to go to high-capacity hardware.
I suspect that the most enthusiastic SSDs AMAZON has gone in T_135, so far look for the nearest / “hot” storage of Amazon ET Commerce and most are using HDD for backup, but it would be interesting to see if we have consumer drive capabilities Do not see any movement in these reforms or not. One thing we can safely assume, will be the establishment of a game-generation with the next generation consoles. A 512 GB SSD is no longer sufficient for our benchmark suite, and the arrival of the next console generation can also feel a bit pinch of 2TB. Under that kind of storage constraint, we can see gamers who deploy more spinners – or maybe SSDs will eventually be cheap so that we will pack all 4TB drives.
