Seagate dropping the HAMR by releasing a 20TB HDD Soon

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/25/2020 06:03 PM | source: heise.de | 18 comment(s)

Western Digital is busy with mamr (Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording), Seagate and Toshiba are working on hamr (Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording).

For a little whole now 18TB HDDS have been around. Seagate has been talking about HAMR hard drives for years, but so far the company has probably been able to advance the capacities sufficiently without this complex and expensive technology. Seagate is now promising that a HAMR hard drive will finally come onto the market in December. Seagate starts with 20 TB, but further details are not yet known, the company has not yet commented on the price.

Seagate expects a data density of 2 to 6 Tbit per square inch from HAMR, five times the current data density. In the presentation, various Seagate managers mentioned HAMR drives with 50 Tbytes.

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TheDeeGee
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#5835034 Posted on: 09/25/2020 07:24 PM

One can only wonder where the finish line is.

Brasky
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#5835038 Posted on: 09/25/2020 07:32 PM

One can only wonder where the finish line is.

I don't think a finish line exists. It's been moved so many times that it's impossible to know.

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#5835040 Posted on: 09/25/2020 07:36 PM

Here's the finnish line guys!

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#5835073 Posted on: 09/25/2020 08:37 PM

Im one of those people that is paranoid of the helium filled drives even when people say its fine, i know people say oh by the time it escapes etc you will upgrade it anyway
If new hdd's continue down this path then i'll jump ship and be full ssd and nvme drives only, atm iv a 6tb wd black 7200rpm and a 1tb samsung 970 nvme, with ssd prices finally being affordable its getting very tempting

Waiting for 6 even 8tb ssd thats around £500 and id happily get rid of all hdd's

Samsung 8tb qvo seems to have a lot of hate so i'll wait for an Evo version

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#5835098 Posted on: 09/25/2020 09:41 PM

Samsung 2TB 970 Evo Plus died on me after just 8 months lol.. I wish SSD would had more stamina for every task, OS, gaming, media and storage, I still have HDD for old games/storage and some random stuff, SSD only for OS and new demanding games, hope this one will (at least) last 2-3 years haha

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