Seagate promises a 12-TB HDD in 2017 and is considering a 16-TB in 2018
Financial officer of Seagate Technology has unveiled some details of the perspective plan of the company in the field of hard disk drives (hard disk drives, HDDs) high-capacity in the coming years. Apparently, next year, Seagate plans to release drives with a capacity of 12 TB on the basis of technology perpendicular magnetic recording (indicate instead magnetice recording, PMR). At the same time in 2018 the company intends to present the first HDD, which will use technology thermomagnetic recording (heat-assisted magnetic recording, HAMR) and have a storage capacity of 16 TB.
The demand for hard drives high-capacity grows
As more and more client devices are moving to SSD, the demand for small capacity hard drives for laptops decreases. However, since the amount of information in General is growing, users have resorted to cloud or network storage network attached storage (NAS) data. As a consequence, in the last two years there has been a steady growth of demand for hard drives high capacity for data processing centers (DPC) and other applications such as NAS, video surveillance systems, etc. In this regard, in the Arsenal of two of the largest producers of HDD, a model with a capacity of 8 and 10 TB, which uses the most advanced technology and are sold at premium prices. Despite the very high cost, the demand for such drives are huge, but because Seagate and Western Digital tend to increase their volume.
Seagate introduced its first helium-filled hard drives with a capacity of 10 TB, HGST a little later, and largely because Seagate Enterprise Capacity 10 TB used by data center operators primarily to assess the most "helium" platform. Due to the fact that Seagate offers an HDD with a capacity of 10 TB for a variety of market segments, including the user, the company will sell a lot of these discs. However, David Morton (David Morton), financial Director at Seagate, said that in the next two quarters the greatest revenue for the company will bring the HDD capacity of 8 TB. First, because the company can produce them in large volumes. Second, because Seagate offers a considerable number of 8-TB models with different capabilities and for different tasks. In addition, at the time of readiness of the data center EN masse to use the "helium" hard drives produced by Seagate, the company will release drives with a capacity of 12 TB.
"10 TB... Is that what we consider as a tweener (as in the English language are called children of age 10-12 years) as it will have 12 TB of fellow above in the lineup," said Mr. Morton at the conference Next-Gen Storage/Networking organized by Needham & Company.
In the course of further conversation with financial analysts senior Seagate has mentioned that the company intended to introduce another generation PMR-plates with a high recording density, than once again confirmed the presence of 12-TB of hard drives in the future.
Helium-filled hard drives from Seagate with a capacity of 10 TB is based on seven plates with a volume of 1.42 Gbytes and a recording density of about 858 GB/IN2. To increase capacity by 20% (to 12 TB) of the company will have to create a plate that will accommodate itself to 1.71 Gbytes of data and have a density of about 1033 GB/IN2. Such density is claimed by companies the limit of PMR, and therefore the production of such plates is feasible. Apparently, we'll see them in commercial products next year.
The era of HAMR is coming
In addition, in 2017, Seagate plans to begin shipping hard drives based on the technology HAMR for evaluation by some partners. Because HAMR is a significant technological breakthrough and not all the properties of the thermomagnetic recording examined by market participants (owners of cloud data centers), they need time to understand the features of the new generation of hard drives. Seagate assumes that the year would be sufficient to estimate advantages of the new HDD and also for possible adaptation of client applications for the new HDD.
For certain plans Seagate in the area of HAMR is unknown, and currently, the company analyzes various possibilities in the formation of the model range. However, one of the options, which sees the Seagate is the performance flagship model with a capacity of 16 terabytes in 2018, said chief financial officer of the company. Like Winchester significantly increase the storage density in the data center, allowing you to store up to 3840 TB of information in a standard rack (2400 vs TB in the case of a 10-terabyte HDD).
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