40TB Hard Disc Drives Soon
June 10th, 2023My first hard disc drive was a Sider 10MB HDD connected to my Apple 2e. haha
It’s Fall, so here’s my Apple Sider ][ hard drive spinning up and down
by u/Taffer25 in retrobattlestations
Via: AnandTech:
Offering a brief update on the future of hard drives, Seagate has shared some fresh insights concerning launch of its next generation hard drives featuring its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology. The company’s initial commercial HAMR hard drive is set to offer a 32 TB capacity, presumably in the third quarter of 2023, but the new recording technology will enable a relatively quick capacity increase to 40 TB. Meanwhile, high-capacity HAMR HDDs will co-exist with yet-to-be-released 24 TB and 28 TB drives.
The initial 32 TB HAMR-based HDDs from Seagate will rely on the company’s 10-platter platform that is akin to that already in use by the company and which has predictable yields and which eliminates one potential point of failure. Given that the company will have to use new media and new write heads with its HAMR hard drives, it is a reasonable move to keep re-using as many proven parts as possible. That 10-platter HAMR platform will be used for 36TB, 40TB, and even higher-capacity HDDs going forward, presumably with as few changes as possible.
