DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show

Episode 51 - Make way for bigger hard drives with B S Teh, CCO of Seagate

Mar 14, 2024

Discover how hard drives are evolving with new technologies like heat-assisted magnetic recording, potentially doubling their capacity. Learn from Seagate's CCO about the impact on data center operations and the future of storage technology.

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Hard drives are not outdated; advancements like HAMR promise to double capacity.

HAMR technology revolutionizes hard drive capabilities through super lattice platinum alloy media and spintronics readers.

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The Evolution and Innovation of Hard Drives

The podcast discusses the evolution and innovation in hard drive technology, challenging the perception that solid-state drives have made hard drives obsolete. Amidst speculation about the future of hard drives, the industry has demonstrated resilience and growth, with recent advancements like Mosaic 3 technology marking significant progress. Over the years, hard drive technology has evolved, focusing on increasing aerial density to pack more data into smaller spaces. Innovations like heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) and spintronics readers have revolutionized hard drive capabilities, leading to unprecedented advancements.

Introduction

3min

Evolution of Hard Drive Technology with Breakthrough Innovations

15min

Advancements in Hard Drive Density

6min

Enhancing Data Capacity Efficiency in Data Centers

2min

Speculations on Future Storage Technologies and Evolution

3min

Think hard drives have hit their storage limits, and should be replaced by solid-state units? You could be wrong.

Hard drives have been holding our data for nearly 70 years since IBM created the 350, which stored something like 4 Mbyte on dozens of spinning disks in a unit the size of a washing machine.

Today's devices are orders of magnitude better on every axis including price, capacity, size, and performance. But solid-state providers say it's time they moved over to make way for modern storage. Hard drives have been in a slump, but a new technique promises to double their capacity.

Seagate is the first to bring heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) to the market, so we invited chief commercial officer B S Teh to tell us why it is such a big deal, why it's taken so long - and how it could change what you do in your data center.

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DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show

Episode 51 - Make way for bigger hard drives with B S Teh, CCO of Seagate

Episode guests

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

The Evolution and Innovation of Hard Drives

The Technological Breakthrough of HAMR Technology

Commercial Viability and Future Prospects of HAMR

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts