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Worldwide HDD Shipment Has Been Declining Since 2010
Steady Downward Trend for HDDs The hard disk drives is an essential part of any PC build. However, it appears that worldwide shipment has been on a steady decline since 2010. Prior to that however, it was in an upward trend, selling exponentially ever since 1976*. In fact, the total…
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Seagate Roadmap Reveals 100TB HAMR HDDs by 2025
The Future of Storage Through HAMR Seagate has revealed a new roadmap (via The Register) for their hard disc drive line, aiming for up to a 100TB drive by 2025. This is of course, much larger than what they announced last year. HAMR stands for Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording technology…
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Seagate Redefines HDD Performance with HAMR and MACH.2
There are a lot of interesting enterprise-oriented events going on at the moment, such ass the OCP summit. Here, Seagate has redefined what we can expect from hard disk drives (HDD) with their HAMR and MACH.2 technologies. We’ve heard of the HAMR before and we’ve also heard of the Exos…
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Seagate on Track for Mass Shipment of 20TB HDDs by 2019
We live in a time where solid state drives are the thing, but hard disk drives shouldn’t be forgotten – and they aren’t. Seagate announced some exciting news in a blog post that promises a great future for those with a demand for high-capacity drives. Not only is Seagate on…
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Seagate Hits 35 Million SMR HDDs and Details HAMR Roadmap
During their recent call with investors, Seagate made a number of major announcements. Seagate is one of the few hard disk drive manufacturers remaining. The company remains one of the few innovators along with Western Digital and Toshiba. While SSD manufacturers have taken increasingly large chunks of the storage market, there…
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Seagate to Cull 8,000 Staff in Upcoming Cuts
With the rise of SSDs, it’s no surprise that HDD manufacturers have been suffering. In a double whammy, PC market which has generally been the biggest hard drive consumer has also been shrinking at the same time. In a move to reduce costs and cut down on production and overhead due…
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First Prototype Seagate HAMR HDDs limited to 4TB
Even as we transition more and more to speedy SSDs, developments are still occurring in HDD land. Having explored the limits of what is practical with Helium filled Shingled Magnetic Recording drives, Seagate is moving onto HAMR or Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording which will allow HDDs to scale beyond 16TB.…
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20TB HDDs? They’re On Their Way, Thanks to HAMR Development
If you thought those 6TB and 8TB HDDs were big, just you wait until we start seeing double-digit HDDs hitting the market. Paul Alcorn, one of our friends over at TweakTown is reporting that we should see 20TB HDDs in the near future, thanks to HAMR-based HDDs. HAMR, as he…
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15TB Hard Drives Could Be a Reality in 2015
Hard drive capacities continue to grow, but it’s a constant battle for the hardware developers to pack higher density drives into the same form factor. There are of course many new technologies on the horizon that promise improved storage capabilities, but the latest demonstration from TDK at the Ceatek trade-show…
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