Seagate will release over 30TB HDD in Q3 with 22TB
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Seagate will release over 30TB HDD in Q3, with 22TB and 24TB drives coming before the end of June

Seagate has announced more specific release dates for its 22TB and 24TB hard drives, as well as when consumer HDDs with HAMR technology and capacities over 30TB will be available.

    Image source: Seagate

Image source: Seagate

In the middle of last year, the manufacturer promised to release high-capacity hard drives in the foreseeable future, no later than the first half of this year. As part of its latest financial report, the company confirmed that these media will be available for sale in the current quarter or next quarter of this year.

In the third quarter of 2023, the company will launch the first 3.5-inch consumer hard drives with HAMR technology with a capacity of more than 30 TB. The HAMR or Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording technique involves a new method of magnetic recording that makes it possible to reduce the size of the magnetic area storing a bit of information and increase the bit density. During the recording process, a small laser diode attached to each head briefly heats a small area of ​​the platter. The heating and cooling process takes nanoseconds while the drive itself remains magnetically and thermally stable. For several years, the manufacturer has been supplying the first HDD generation with HAMR technology to individual customers, mainly owners of large data centers.

According to Seagate CEO Dave Mosley, the market share of HAMR drives will remain relatively small this year. However, with the increase in the volume of production and the reduction in the cost of production, their popularity will increase.

In line with Seagate’s previously announced plans for the turn of the year 2024-2025. will release drives with a capacity of 40 TB, and by 2026 it plans to create devices that can store 50 TB of information or more. Seagate also noted that they have already developed 3.5-inch HDD disks that can hold 5 TB of information, which opens up the possibility of making disks of this volume in the future.

The 22TB drives use CMR/PMR technology and 2.2TB platters. 24TB HDD models use SMR recording technology.