News After years of testing, Seagate claims its heat-assisted HAMR drives are as reliable as traditional PMR storage

[Admin]

Don't expect deep data, as Seagate only shared the headline claims.

After years of testing, Seagate claims its heat-assisted HAMR drives are as reliable as traditional PMR storage : Read more

 

[jp7189]

I'd be more interested in unrecoverable bit error rate. I'm sure the motors and actuators are just as reliable as PMR, but is 6000 hours for a head really that good? That's less than a year of continous use.

Has Backblaze published anything for these drives yet?

 

[CmdrShepard]

Foxes have investigated their new hen preserving technology and found that it is as reliable as guard dogs farmers used previously.

 

[Mr5oh]

Do they mean actually reliable? Or as reliable as any other Seagate hard drive? There is a difference.