News Seagate unveils 36TB HAMR hard drive: Mozaic 3+ extended

[Admin]

Seagate is sampling 36TB HDDs with select customers, demonstrates platters set to enable 60TB HDDs.

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[emike09]

Good to see more progress in large HDDs. Still waiting for 20TB HDDs to come down in price. A lifetime of files adds up quickly and cloud storage is very expensive. I'm always surprised that there isn't more demand for large drives on a personal level.

 

[A Stoner]

Good to see more progress in large HDDs. Still waiting for 20TB HDDs to come down in price. A lifetime of files adds up quickly and cloud storage is very expensive. I'm always surprised that there isn't more demand for large drives on a personal level.

You just stated the reason there is not more demand for large drives. Prices are too high.

I have 4 16TB drives, that was the largest I was willing to pay for and it was when they were on deep discount. I think I got 2 for $399 and then I got 2 more when they went on sale for 2 for $340 or something like that.

I currently see a no name MDD brand who has a 16TB 7200RPM 256MB cache 3 years 300TB warranty for only $160 at Walmart... Wonder if that is a scam...

 

[SomeoneElse23]

You can get quality refurb 16TB drives with 5 year warranties for far less than $200 a piece.

I personally use GoHardDrive. They have their own website and they are on NewEgg as well as Amazon (last I checked).

 

[3en88]

There is no way they'll be used for any AI workloads. HDDs are way too slow, too fragile and too power hungry and Seagate will surely demand an exorbitant price for their shiny tech. They took way too long to bring HAMR to market but now it's too late this won't go anywhere.

 

[Vanderlindemedia]

There is no way they'll be used for any AI workloads. HDDs are way too slow, too fragile and too power hungry and Seagate will surely demand an exorbitant price for their shiny tech. They took way too long to bring HAMR to market but now it's too late this won't go anywhere.

You be suprised how fast you can make HDD based storage through the use of SSD caching.

 

[SomeoneElse23]

There is no way they'll be used for any AI workloads. HDDs are way too slow, too fragile and too power hungry and Seagate will surely demand an exorbitant price for their shiny tech. They took way too long to bring HAMR to market but now it's too late this won't go anywhere.

There is plenty of market for large spinning storage.
Else the big storage makers wouldn't be releasing larger and larger storage?

 

[OldAnalogWorld]

You can get quality refurb 16TB drives with 5 year warranties for far less than $200 a piece.

How is this possible in HDD? If there is wear of the protective layer of the surface of the plates and the mechanism of the heads and themselves, no "refurb" will be of high quality, except for a complete replacement of all the stuffing in the case, which will cost more than making a new disk on the conveyor.