News Seagate unveils 30TB HDDs for the masses — laser-powered HAMR drives are now widely available

[Admin]

Seagate has released its first mass-market HAMR hard drives — the Exos M and IronWolf Pro up to 30TB — marking a milestone in storage density for such HDDs.

Seagate unveils 30TB HDDs for the masses — laser-powered HAMR drives are now widely available : Read more

 

[SomeoneElse23]

I found the Exos M on NewEgg. Apparently Seagate only expects this drive to last only a year?? That's insane.

NewEgg doesn't (yet) have the 30TB Pro, but the 20TB drive has a 5 year warranty, which is much more reasonable.

 

[DS426]

"Thus, the new hard drives enable the storage of from 30PB (42U rack) to 36PB (48U rack) per single rack, which is unprecedented storage density."

Unprecedented for HDD's, not for SSD's; 30 TB 2.5" SSD's are common now, some 60's are also available, and 120's have been developed and are coming to the market soon. 60 TB 2.5" SSD's filling a 1U rack = 2 PB, so a 48U rack can store 96 PB of data.

 

[mogster]

I think there's an error in the article. Instead of "4 KiB random write performance", the "4 KiB random read performance" graphic is shown twice.

 

[lmcnabney]

Informative article, but $600 spinning rust isn't 'for the masses'. Especially with mediocre warranties.

 

[SomeoneElse23]

Informative article, but $600 spinning rust isn't 'for the masses'. Especially with mediocre warranties.

While true, if nothing else this will drive down prices of what-used-to-be larger drives.

 

[A Stoner]

I found the Exos M on NewEgg. Apparently Seagate only expects this drive to last only a year?? That's insane.

NewEgg doesn't (yet) have the 30TB Pro, but the 20TB drive has a 5 year warranty, which is much more reasonable.

New Egg either has different warranties or they are not honest on what the warranty is. The documentation on Seagate says 5 year warranty. I saw the same thing with a 26 TB model recently. New Egg is $5 cheaper, but showed a 2 year warranty and Seagate showed 5 years.

 

[SomeoneElse23]

New Egg either has different warranties or they are not honest on what the warranty is. The documentation on Seagate says 5 year warranty. I saw the same thing with a 26 TB model recently. New Egg is $5 cheaper, but showed a 2 year warranty and Seagate showed 5 years.

Right you are. 🙁 NewEgg is getting en****ified.

The Seagate website shows 5 year warranty. It also shows a 36TB model.

 

[Rob1C]

More interesting for some people is the USB version, for little more than half price.

https://www.seagate.com/products/ex...n-desktop-hard-drive/?sku=STKP6000400&store=1

 

[leclod]

"Unlike the first generation, which never reached the market,"
I own a 24TB Seagate drive with a laser warning on the label.
Maybe the first generation did reach the market

 

[JRStern]

>This laser heats a small spot on the FePT recording layer on the disk to approximately 450°C (842°F)
Um, what's the number of times you can do that before it, uh, fails?
I guess the odds are on a 30tb drive it doesn't come up very often, ... but it might. Does it auto-remap every sector on rewrites to you don't wear it out?

 

[spongiemaster]

Informative article, but $600 spinning rust isn't 'for the masses'. Especially with mediocre warranties.

For the masses means available for sale from normal consumer retailers, not that everyone is the target market. Typically these large drives are sold to enterprise\hyperscalers first. The previous 28TB Exos wasn't sold new from retail channels until very recently despite being announced almost 2 years ago. Amazon has sold refurbs for months though.

 

[uplink-svk]

Am I the only one here with very bad experience with Seagate HDDs? Their Firecuda SSDs are a breeze, but all of their HDDs died on my watch, and I'm talking dozens if not some lower hundreds of these drives. On the other hand only one WD died on my watch and I'm talking in a ballpark of thousands platter drives spanning almost 34 years of my life. Yes, even those 500 MB - 1 GB iDE 33 mbps drives work till today with like 200k+ hrs on their PFA/S.M.A.R.T.. counter.