Wednesday, October 28th 2020
Seagate: 20 TB HAMR Drives Arrive in December, 50 TB Capacities in 2026
In its latest earnings call, Seagate, a manufacturer of high-capacity drives, has revealed several interesting points about its upcoming releases of next-generation hard drives. More specifically, the company has disclosed a shift to a new generation of HDDs based on so-called heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology. This technology is set to bring many improvements compared to the one currently used by Seagate's rivals like Western Digital. The rivaling company uses energy-assisted perpendicular magnetic recording (ePMR) and microwave-assisted (MAMR) technologies and it already has a 20 TB drive in the offering. Seagate announced that they will unveil a 20 TB HDD in December this year, with the use of HAMR technology, which will bring many improvements like better speed and more efficient disk read/write.
"We remain on track to ship 20-TB HAMR drives starting in December, which is an important milestone, as we believe HAMR technology will be the industry's path to scaling a real density and increasing drive capacities," said Dave Mosley, CEO of Seagate. "Seagate will be the first to ship this crucial technology with a path to deliver 50-TB HAMR drives forecast in 2026."
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Seagate Earnings Call (Transcript)
"We remain on track to ship 20-TB HAMR drives starting in December, which is an important milestone, as we believe HAMR technology will be the industry's path to scaling a real density and increasing drive capacities," said Dave Mosley, CEO of Seagate. "Seagate will be the first to ship this crucial technology with a path to deliver 50-TB HAMR drives forecast in 2026."
60 Comments on Seagate: 20 TB HAMR Drives Arrive in December, 50 TB Capacities in 2026
Will be great filling 50TB at 200MB/s...
If we multiply 20 by 6,66 that would give 133 TB but that's way too unrealistic as capacity advances have slowed down.
More realistic outlook would be to add another 17 TB in 5 years. That would still be 37 TB in 2026. Still 13 TB short of the 50 TB number.
Sort of seeing little imps running about with hammers when I think of data being processed on this drive, too. I guess I'm weird.
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But in actual use, it is often the accumulation of data over a long period of time, such as 1 year in order to fill the capacity.
And for other uses (so non-NAS use), who would choose a hard drive over an SSD? Especially 6 years from now lol?
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A 6tb hdd used to cost $420 www.anandtech.com/show/8772/seagate-enterprise-nas-hdd-6-tb-review/8, same cost of a 1tb ssd but 6 times more. Right now we have a 18gb hdd for $500, www.newegg.com/seagate-exos-x18-st18000nm000j-18tb/p/1B4-00VK-00616, and a $400 4tb ssd www.newegg.com/samsung-4tb-870-qvo-series/p/N82E16820147783?Item=N82E16820147783, so to keep in line with price, hdd supposed to be at least 24tb and with a similar price of $400 and pay attention that hdd's nowadays cost much less because they have a heavy competition from ssd's, in that time they had no competition. So if we had no ssd's a 18tb hdd would cost around 3k today.
If you need to store vast amounts of data and speed matters less than price a HDD is still the best option
For $10.000 i could buy somewhere around 10 to 12 20 TB HDD´s and get 200-240 TB vs the one 50 TB SSD
SSD´s will need to drop a ton in price to become an alternate