News Seagate to Launch Mass Market 20TB HDDs in Coming Months

[Admin]

Seagate readies a lineup of 20TB HDDs: PMR & SMR.

Seagate to Launch Mass Market 20TB HDDs in Coming Months : Read more

 

[Jennifer W]

SMR? No thank you.

 

[spongiemaster]

SMR? No thank you.

FIRST sentence of the article:

"Seagate is working on multiple consumer hard drives featuring a 20TB capacity that will use perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) and shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technologies, "

There will be PMR versions.

 

[derekullo]

HAMR time has ended.

 

[Jennifer W]

FIRST sentence of the article:

"Seagate is working on multiple consumer hard drives featuring a 20TB capacity that will use perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) and shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technologies, "

There will be PMR versions.

SMR sent up red flags.
I’m not familiar with PMR, just CMR & SMR, and SMR is trash.

 

[spongiemaster]

SMR sent up red flags.
I’m not familiar with PMR, just CMR & SMR, and SMR is trash.

PMR (perpendicular) is the original name for CMR (conventional). Once SMR was released, PMR was renamed CMR.

 

[jappe66]

The Chia network is 31EB not 31PB

 

[husker]

My first reaction: Is it really 20 TB of uncompressed data? How much of that is reserved for overhead? These are the first 2 questions that should be answered about any hard drive before you even know if will fit in your case.

 

[teodoreh]

Seriously now, Chia is dead, and Toms Hardware + HDD companies, do everything in their power to keep it alive!

 

[Tanquen]

"We have a number of different 20 terabyte platforms coming - PMR, SMR, HAMR. There’s a lot of different flavors of them, and they are targeted to different customers so different qualification schedules for each,”

Well they offer a version (not 7,200 RPM) that doesn't have a droning hum into the back of your head 24/7 for those of us that want to use it in a workstation or heaven forbid a desktop NAS?

They still list these drives as having better idle decibel readings than my old 5200 RPM 4 terabyte drive and it's disingenuous at best.