Seagate plans to launch 100TB hard drives by 2025
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Seagate plans to release 100TB hard drives by 2025/2026 using HAMR technology. The roadmap published by Seagate clearly shows that mechanical hard drives are far from gone, and they promise to offer 48TB hard drives by 2023, a jump of more than 3.4 times compared to current 14TB hard drives from the company.
Seagate plans to launch the first 100TB drives in 2025 and 48TB drives in 2023
Thanks to the incorporation of HAMR (Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording) technology, Seagate plans to double the storage densities, more or less, every 30 months (2.5 years), making possible a 100 TB hard drive in 2025/2026. This technology will increase the density of hard drives enough to make them more competitive in today's data center storage market.
Before 2020, Seagate plans to release 3.5-inch 16TB hard drives using traditional PMR (Perpendicular Magnetic Recording) techniques, while delivering HAMR-based 16TB starters to a 'key partner' in the meantime. In 2020, Seagate plans to launch its first HAMR-based hard drives over 20TB, and expects the drive's capabilities to skyrocket following the introduction of the technology.
Western Digital, another big name in the hard drive space, plans to endorse its microwave-assisted magnetic recording technology as an alternative to HAMR-based drives, claiming that its technology will increase the longevity of hard drives while offering benefits. similar storage density.
In addition to its HAMR-based hard drives, Seagate also plans to launch units with Multi-Actuator technology, which will allow its future units to offer higher levels of performance (IOPS) by utilizing several independent actuators, which will parallelize their future units to offer higher read and write performance. This technology should allow IOPS / TB metrics to remain the same as they are today, despite the increased capabilities HAMR offers.
As you can see, it seems that mechanical hard drives are going to be with us for a long time, offering significant storage capacities compared to SSD solid state drives.
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