Concealed deep in Seagate’s monetary report launched late last month was a quick roadmap upgrade for the business’s heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) innovation. As kept in mind in the current upgrade, Seagate is now preparing to start mass production of its 32 TB HAMR in early 2024, which is a minor hold-up from what the business revealed early this year. On the other hand, the business anticipates to begin production of 40+ TB HDDs in about 2 years’ time.
” Certification and income ramp prepare for our 30-plus terabyte items stay totally on track with high-volume ramp beginning early in calendar 2024,” stated Dave Mosley, president of Seagate, throughout teleconference with monetary experts and financiers.” These drives provide capability beginning at 30 terabytes and use consumers the very same versatility to embrace either CMR or SMR setups to more increase aerial density into the mid-30TB variety.”
As kept in mind back in October, Seagate’s Exos X24 series of HDDs will assist set the phase for HAMR-based disk drives, as the latter will keep utilizing the very same 10-platter platform — albeit with brand-new plates along with compose heads with lasers to heat up the media surface area. Those Exos drives will utilize 10 2.4 TB perpendicular magnetic recording disks and will start deliveries in the very first half of calendar 2024. Around the very same time– in early calendar 2024– Seagate prepares to begin volume ramp of 32 TB HAMR HDDs.
Even with the volume ramp and excellent capability, Seagate is just anticipating to offer a modest variety of HAMR HDDs in the very first quarters of their schedule. The business thinks that it can walk around one million systems in the very first half of 2024, though the company does not divulge whether the number is restricted by its capability to produce the drives, or by need from consumers who require to certify such items before releasing them in their datacenters.
” We will begin our HAMR income relatively highly in the very first 6 months of the calendar 2024,” stated Gianluca Romano, primary monetary officer of Seagate. “We believe we have about a million system as chance to be offered.”
Another intriguing disclosure discovered in the file is that Seagate means to begin producing HAMR-based HDDs including 4+ TB plates within the next 2 years, which would have them getting here at some point in late 2025 or early 2026. This is rather lags the business’s positive schedule exposed a couple of years back, which prepared for 50+ TB HDDs in calendar 2026. Though it’s probably a more sensible schedule that remains in line with the advancement cadence so far, specifically provided how advancement and release of hard disk continues nowadays.
Another notable thing is that Seagate’s quick roadmap upgrade does not point out HDDs with more than 10 plates. Indicating that the business appears to be done including plates to acquire extra capability, a minimum of in the meantime. Maybe, the business thinks that increased areal density that is allowed by HAMR will allow it to use competitive capabilities and it does not require to include any extra disks. Or possibly setting up over 10 HAMR plates is dangerous from yields perspective currently, so the business chooses not to point out such a technological choice.
Source: Seagate (through StorageNewsletter)