Seagate confirms 20TB HAMR hard disk drives have been shipped Side View
Seagate has exclusively confirmed to TechRadar Pro that it has started to ship 20TB hard disk drives, but don’t rush out to buy one just yet, because they are not currently available to consumers.
The drive, which sports the largest HDD capacity to date, is likely to be part of the Exos family as we revealed back in August 2020, despite the fact that this SKU is still conspicuously absent from the Seagate website.
A spokesperson for the company told us that Seagate is “shipping these drives on a limited basis in our Electronic Data Systems (EDS) products and to select datacenter customers, as we continue collecting production and field data”.
The HAMR technology that powers this new hard disk drive is expected to be at the core of Seagate’s ambition to deliver a 50TB hard disk drive by 2026.
Future of HDD in jeopardy
But it could well be too little too late. The arrival of PLC (the successor of QLC) in the solid state drive market, combined with a resurgent tape industry means that the venerable hard disk drive finds itself sandwiched between two very aggressive rivals both wanting to eat away at its market share.
And while disk drive capacities are increasing, they can’t match the exponential growth seen in competing media. The largest SSD right now is a 100TB model from Nimbus Data, while a prototype of a 580TB tape was unveiled only a few days ago.
Seagate has exclusively confirmed to TechRadar Pro that it has started to ship 20TB hard disk drives, but don’t rush out to buy one just yet, because they are not currently available to consumers. The drive, which sports the largest HDD capacity to date, is likely to be part of…
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