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From TFA: >The Exos 16 TB hard drive using HAMR technology is now the world’s biggest HDD in terms of capacity overtaking the 14 TB Barracuda Pro. >HAMR, whic
by lightbyte 8y ago
From TFA:
>The Exos 16 TB hard drive using HAMR technology is now the world’s biggest HDD in terms of capacity overtaking the 14 TB Barracuda Pro.
>HAMR, which is the acronym for heat-assisted magnetic recording, to be precise. This replaces the regular PMR, perpendicular magnetic recording, found in most HDDs. To the average consumer, this doesn’t mean much at all. However, Seagate believes that HAMR is the key to making significantly larger capacities readily available shortly.
- fallat 8y agoWhat is the theoretical realistic limits for HDD storage? From the sounds of it this 16TB HAMR-enabled drive is just the first of many we will see year-to-year to continue HDD sales.
- selectodude 8y agoSeagate says they'll get up to 100 TB with HAMR. Curious at what point it's no longer financially reasonable to keep researching ways to increase density.
- SwellJoe 8y agoWe produce and process more data in a few days than we did in a year even as recently as a decade ago (and, by "we", I mostly mean companies that want to store every detail of every human life for analysis in order to maximize profits). So far, the increasing need for storage has kept pace with the ability to store it.
- elorant 8y agoSeagate's roadplan is 100TB by 2025. https://www.techpowerup.com/249271/seagates-roadmap-shows-how-we-can-expect-100-tb-hdds-in-2025 https://www.techpowerup.com/249271/seagates-roadmap-shows-ho...