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Seagate starts shipping enormous 22TB hard drives to “some customers”
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<blockquote data-quote="OneMoreThing..." data-source="post: 1902565" data-attributes="member: 196927"><p><img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/seagate-ironwolf-800x556.jpg" alt="Seagate starts shipping enormous 22TB hard drives to “some customers”" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p><a href="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/seagate-ironwolf.jpg" target="_blank">Enlarge</a> (credit: Seagate)</p><p></p><p>While NVMe SSDs focus on getting faster, good old spinning hard drives are intent on getting larger. Tom's Hardware <a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-is-shipping-22tb-hdds" target="_blank">reports</a> that hard drive manufacturer Seagate announced on a recent earnings call that it is shipping huge, 22TB hard drives to some of its customers. The company uses shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology to squeeze a couple more terabytes out of its biggest drives.</p><p></p><p>The highest-capacity drives most people can currently buy top out at 20TB; the <a href="https://www.newegg.com/seagate-ironwolf-pro-st20000ne000-20tb/p/N82E16822185007?quicklink=true" target="_blank">Seagate Ironwolf Pro</a> or <a href="https://www.newegg.com/gold-wd201kryz-20tb/p/N82E16822234498?quicklink=true" target="_blank">WD Gold</a> are two such drives, and they both generally retail for over $600. In its NAS drives, Seagate <a href="https://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/cmr-smr-list/" target="_blank">uses conventional magnetic recording</a> (CMR) technology, which provides better random read and write speeds than SMR disks but at a lower density—this is fine for archival storage, but not so much for servers where multiple users are regularly accessing and modifying data. We found this out firsthand a few years back <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/western-digitals-smr-disks-arent-great-but-theyre-not-garbage/" target="_blank">when Western Digital covertly started using SMR technology in its WD Red drives</a> for consumer NAS devices.</p><p></p><p>As for more dramatic capacity boosts, Seagate is continuing to work on <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/hamr-dont-hurt-em-laser-assisted-hard-drives-are-coming-in-2020/" target="_blank">heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) drives</a>, which the company has been testing with some of its customers for a few years now. Seagate has certainly been guilty of overpromising and underdelivering on HAMR, which the company has been talking about on and off since 2002. But <a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-technology-roadmap-2021" target="_blank">as of early 2021</a>, Seagate said it was aiming for 30TB drives by 2023, 50TB drives in 2026, and 100TB drives by 2030.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1830217" target="_blank">Read on Ars Technica</a> | <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1830217&comments=1" target="_blank">Comments</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1830217" target="_blank">Click here to view the article...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OneMoreThing..., post: 1902565, member: 196927"] [IMG alt="Seagate starts shipping enormous 22TB hard drives to “some customers”"]https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/seagate-ironwolf-800x556.jpg[/IMG] [URL='https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/seagate-ironwolf.jpg']Enlarge[/URL] (credit: Seagate) While NVMe SSDs focus on getting faster, good old spinning hard drives are intent on getting larger. Tom's Hardware [URL='https://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-is-shipping-22tb-hdds']reports[/URL] that hard drive manufacturer Seagate announced on a recent earnings call that it is shipping huge, 22TB hard drives to some of its customers. The company uses shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology to squeeze a couple more terabytes out of its biggest drives. The highest-capacity drives most people can currently buy top out at 20TB; the [URL='https://www.newegg.com/seagate-ironwolf-pro-st20000ne000-20tb/p/N82E16822185007?quicklink=true']Seagate Ironwolf Pro[/URL] or [URL='https://www.newegg.com/gold-wd201kryz-20tb/p/N82E16822234498?quicklink=true']WD Gold[/URL] are two such drives, and they both generally retail for over $600. In its NAS drives, Seagate [URL='https://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/cmr-smr-list/']uses conventional magnetic recording[/URL] (CMR) technology, which provides better random read and write speeds than SMR disks but at a lower density—this is fine for archival storage, but not so much for servers where multiple users are regularly accessing and modifying data. We found this out firsthand a few years back [URL='https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/western-digitals-smr-disks-arent-great-but-theyre-not-garbage/']when Western Digital covertly started using SMR technology in its WD Red drives[/URL] for consumer NAS devices. As for more dramatic capacity boosts, Seagate is continuing to work on [URL='https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/hamr-dont-hurt-em-laser-assisted-hard-drives-are-coming-in-2020/']heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) drives[/URL], which the company has been testing with some of its customers for a few years now. Seagate has certainly been guilty of overpromising and underdelivering on HAMR, which the company has been talking about on and off since 2002. But [URL='https://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-technology-roadmap-2021']as of early 2021[/URL], Seagate said it was aiming for 30TB drives by 2023, 50TB drives in 2026, and 100TB drives by 2030. [URL='https://arstechnica.com/?p=1830217']Read on Ars Technica[/URL] | [URL='https://arstechnica.com/?p=1830217&comments=1']Comments[/URL] [url=https://arstechnica.com/?p=1830217]Click here to view the article...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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