Seagate Launching HAMR Technology Soon, Enabling HDDs of Up to 50 TB

Tsing · Nov 28, 2020

Storage enthusiasts should have a lot of fun over the coming years consolidating their data, as HDDs are set to grow exponentially bigger.

Speaking at a recent investment conference, Seagate CEO Dave Mosley revealed (via Blocks & Files) that his company’s heavily hyped heat-assisted magnetic recording technology, HAMR, is set to debut this quarter. This is a successor to traditional perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) that leverages the heat of a tiny laser beam to write data into much smaller regions, enabling enormous hard drives of up to 50 TB.

“This quarter also, we are going to...

Brian_B · Nov 28, 2020

Nice size. Not sure I trust Seagate though

LazyGamer · Nov 28, 2020

Bigger issue is actually getting all of the data on and off of such large drives.

Dogsofjune · Nov 28, 2020

Bah, won't be in stock....

AntiQuark · Nov 28, 2020

LazyGamer said:
Bigger issue is actually getting all of the data on and off of such large drives.

Yeah, even 5TB is a pain with current transfer rates @ 7hrs+.

I wonder how long data will remain stable on these platters.
ie are they good enough for long term storage at least 5 years?

Seagate Launching HAMR Technology Soon, Enabling HDDs of Up to 50 TB

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