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Seagate is sharing new particulars about its first HDDs primarily based on heat-assisted magnetic recording, a way that ought to allow greater disk capacities. The corporate will initially include a 32TB hamr hdd. Bigger variants will comply with within the coming months and years.
Seagate shares the small print throughout de Financial institution of America 2023 International Expertise Convention. Seagate’s chief monetary officer Gianluca Romano says there that the following era hamr-hdd could have a capability of 32 TB. This hdd has ten platters of three.2 TB every, that are learn and written with a complete of twenty heads.
A 36TB variant will comply with later, which additionally will get ten platters and twenty heads. The identical applies to variants with 40 and 50TB, which is able to seem additional sooner or later. Seagate says this fashion it could improve its disk capability with out rising prices, as a result of the identical quantity of disks and write heads are used. The corporate due to this fact achieves the capability will increase by rising the utmost capability per platter.
The hdd producer mentioned earlier that it’s going to launch its first hamr hdds within the third quarter of this 12 months. The corporate did not share any concrete capabilities on the time, simply saying that this drive would have a capability of ’30+TB’. Because of this the 32TB drive will in all probability be out there to the primary clients within the coming months. These will in all probability turn out to be hyperscalers. It’s the first hdd with a capability of greater than 30TB. Seagate’s present PMR HDDs are available in capacities of as much as 22TB, though the producer will quickly introduce a 24TB variant as effectively.
Hammer stands for warmth assisted magnetic recording. Hamr HDDs have platters manufactured from a steady magnetic materials, consisting of an alloy of iron and platinum. Because of this, the bits could be made smaller, which may improve the storage capability of platters. Nonetheless, these supplies are additionally more durable than these of current platters, which implies that they have to be heated to 400°C to have the ability to write on them. Hamr HDDs have writing heads with small lasers for this goal. Seagate has been engaged on hamr for over 20 years.
