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… Now Read: Seagate Announces It’s Successfully Built 16TB HAMR Drives Seagate Wants to HAMR the Competition, Ship 100TB HDDs By 2025 Seagate’s New Multi-Actuator Could Double Hard Drive Speeds
… According to John Morris, Seagate's Chief Technical Officer, the 50TB capacities Seagate envisions for future disks will require the read-write transducer to fly across the disk at 2.5 meters per second, while also keeping its position on the drive accurate within just 2.4nm. …
… Starting with 2014, Seagate will use SMR to boost platter capacity to 1.25TB, allowing for four-platter 5TB drives. The video above suggests that Seagate can use SMR to reach 20TB, though I'm sure that won't be for a few years yet. …
… The drives feature Seagate's new DuraWrite technology for optimizing data layout and write performance, as well as Seagate's AgileArray firmware. Seagate says the drives will also support its IronWolf Health Management system soon. …
… There are also some strong sales on Seagate storage devices. …
… However, that's an outlier -- Seagate drives tend toward higher failure rates, with some 12-14TB models hitting an AFR of 4-5%. On the other hand, Seagate drives are also cheaper, and Backblaze still sees the value in using Seagate drives for its large-scale operation. …
… Unlike the Seagate and Samsung hardware, the ExaDrive uses both conventional SATA and SAS Serial Attached SCSI . …
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… Seagate 3TB USB 3.0 external hard drive Opens in a new window for $97.95. …