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In theory, yes, but the bottom of the article explains that Seagate currently plans for their upcoming 24TB drive to be the last new non-SMR drive and all large
by wtallis 3y ago
In theory, yes, but the bottom of the article explains that Seagate currently plans for their upcoming 24TB drive to be the last new non-SMR drive and all larger drives (28+ TB) are planned to be SMR. So in practice SMR and HAMR will be going hand in hand, at least from this vendor.
- wmf 3y agoThat's not my interpretation but we'll see.
- wtallis 3y ago> "So, we have a 24TB coming out soon, next few months, you will see it," said Romano. "That is the last PMR product. So I would say [higher] capacity point above 24TB PMR, that is probably 28TB SMR." Sounds like the only uncertainty is in what the next capacity past 24TB will be, but it'll definitely be SMR rather than PMR.
- awiesenhofer 3y agoI agree this part is a bit ambigous, but it says somewhere before this that the next drives to be released will be a 22TB and 28TB SMR drive. So I read this comment as "after this last 24TB PMR drive there will be the 28TB SMR drive before we will see the 32TB+ HAMR drives going forward" - so to me he was more talking purely about upcoming sizes rather than technology connections and SMR seems to be on its way out too!?
- 76fd767f7f77f7f 3y ago[dead]