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Seagate smashes largest HDD world record with 36TB hard drive
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- JoeAltmaier 2y agoMy first thought was, we have a town with the World's Largest Buggy Whip.
- nom 2y agoOh cool, so they are using heat now too. I wonder what the next step-up will take? They are already at 11 platters but I can imagine you could make things even thinner :hmm:
- pkaye 2y agoLooks like they are improving the media technology from granular to ordered-granular to bit patterned by 2030. They are also using dual actuators to speed up test times but will also make it available to customers as two interfaces to use in RAID configuration. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16544/seagates-roadmap-120-tb-hdds https://www.anandtech.com/show/16544/seagates-roadmap-120-tb...
- mystified5016 2y agoIs that two sets of heads? Huh, that'd be pretty interesting, a natively striped disk. I bet the failure modes are pretty spectacular.
- pkaye 2y agoYes two sets of heads that are accessing different platters I believe. Actually this approach has been used in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conner_Peripherals#Performance_issues_and_the_Chinook_dual-actuator_drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conner_Peripherals#Performance...
- tarasglek 2y ago36TB drives are going to enable RAG and agentic workflow per marketing. I would love to lock 5ose marketoids in a room and not let em out until they show demo rag that works better with 36tb than 22tb hd
- coolspot 2y agoToo easy: get 36TB of indexed data instead of 22TB
- illusive4080 2y agoI wonder how long until these will be $200 a piece on serverpartdeals? 5 years?
- theandrewbailey 2y agoI wonder if they will release a model with the same capacity platters, but only 1 or 2 platters, so its quiet and cool.
- emchammer 2y agoHow about one in a 5.25" form factor which runs at 1800 RPM.
- mystified5016 2y agoBring back the Bigfoot