Seagate is famous for having high-quality mechanical hard drives that are well-suited for the needs of today’s data storage industry. At the Open Compute conference, they showcased a variety of their new improvements that blew away industry standards with the improved technology.
They are the first dual-core HDD since it became available with its updated multi-actuator technology which allows for it to use two asynchronous arms, each of which has a set of heads. A comparable approach to that of a multicore processor (or a two-threaded monocore), it offers up to 480MB/s sequential read and write, double that of a professional 7,200RPM mechanical drive and up to 60% superior than a 15,000RPM HDD.
A brand new generation of Exos hard drives will arrive with HAMR technology, offering capacities up to 20TB per unit. This technology involves heating up a drive platter with a few tiny lasers to 400°C for just a few fractions of a second, allowing the storage of up to 2TB of information per square inch. Just recently Seagate released an announcement that was a major breakthrough in the industry. The new hard drives claim a durability of 6,000 hours and are able to transfer 3.2 petabytes over its lifespan. This is 10 times the amount set by industry reliability standards.
In the near future, Seagate is looking to merge together the two technologies into a single process. The goal is to have high performance and capacity simultaneously. It’s unclear when these devices will be available for general consumers. Some “well-wishers” speculate that they’ll be on the market in the coming months.
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