Seagate 20TB HDDs also for consumers

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/25/2021 04:37 PM | source: hardware.info | 16 comment(s)

Seagate alluded to a 20TB consumer hard drive during a recent earnings call transcript, Tom's Hardware noticed. The storage manufacturer is working on heat-assisted magnetic recording.

The new 20TB HDD would be made available to the entire public. Strong-capacity HDDs are in high demand, says CEO David Mosley. For a consumer PC or NAS, the linked hamr drives are ideal. The new pmr hard drives use perpendicular magnetic recording (pmr) and two-dimensional magnetic storage (DMS) (tdmr). For the latter, an unique read head that reads data from the disk quietly allows for better data density. Finally, the same brand's innovative Mach.2 technology is in high demand for high-capacity HDDs. Mosley claims that double-acting hard drives are soon becoming popular. He believes the technology will gain popularity as drives larger than 30 terabytes hit the market. Previously, it was estimated that the hamr discs would be widely released in 2023.

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nizzen
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#5958715 Posted on: 10/25/2021 08:27 PM

Had 144TB in 2010 (mostly in raid-6 with Areca 1880ix-24 with expander), now I'm just using 480GB optane and 4TB of m.2 ssd's in my main computer. Times has changed with 1 Gbit internet :p

Haven't upgraded the storage space since 2014 :rolleyes:

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#5958792 Posted on: 10/26/2021 01:15 AM

Those were fun days, 50% more free space from the same drive!
But so many MFM drives used for RLL took their time then eventually corrupted. MFM drives could be used with RLL encoding, 'could'.
(all RLL drives were MFM based, supposedly better quality to cope with the new compression)
In those days we only had one set of recovery tools made by Norton and no recovery specialists, it was all so new.
If Norton didnt get your data back ...

Explanantion is for not so ancients techies

I can imagine you guys backing up data with a chisel on marble plaques ! (Sorry i could not resist :p) that said i am not that new my first pc was an inhell pentium @666(667 according to intel ) and a voodoo 3 with 64mb ram !

with 1 Gbit internet :p

I hate you :p i want to able to get 1gbit too ! 50mbit vdsl is the best i can get send me 100mbit bro you will not miss em :p

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#5958794 Posted on: 10/26/2021 01:36 AM

This would be great if we could trust their reliability.
20TB is a LOT to lose or recover, I can think of better ways to use my time/money.
I'll sit this out for some time...

Gotta buy two and raid them to be safe *__*

Year 2001 ... People where claiming that i can not ever fill my new 40gb hard drive , i knew i would ! Hehe 20tb for normal use are overkill today it will fill ...eventually!

Now in the year 2021 and it's pretty average download over 100GB a month.

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#5958877 Posted on: 10/26/2021 10:16 AM

Well you'd be a fool for only having one of these drives if you actually use that much disk space, and, if you don't want to risk losing anything. The average consumer can't afford 20TB of SSD storage, so, there's not much you can do to avoid the time consumption.

Well, the longer time it takes for your array to rebuild, the more chances there are of failure at the time of the array rebuild. So with larger and larger drives, you'll want more and more drives and backups to ensure that your data is safe.

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#5958878 Posted on: 10/26/2021 10:18 AM

It's funny, in a sad way, that the two remaining brands of HDD manufacturers are Seagate and WD... my two bottom picks when we had more choice in the market.

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