wccftech 24 TB & 22 TB Hard Drives From Seagate Expected To Launch In 1H 2023, 30 TB & 50 TB HDDs In Q3 2023

[bonami2]

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Seagate has announced that it would increase the size of hard drives in 2023, starting with 22 TB and 24 TB drives during the first half of 2023. The company plans to launch the first HDD with heat-assisted magnetic recording technology, also known as HAMR drives, during the third quarter of 2023.

24 TB & 22 TB Hard Drives From Seagate Expected To Launch In 1H 2023, 30 TB & 50 TB HDDs In Q3 2023

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Seagate is anticipating 50TB drives by the year 2026 for mass production, but will possibly have them ready for testing this year.

 

[Alex]

Good news for me doubling my HDD size size I can remember,

 

60GB -> 120GB -> 250GB -> 500GB -> 1TB -> 2TB -> 4TB -> 8TB -> 16TB. Now I just need to wait for the 32TB HDDs to come out

[Desolutional]

Got to see how reliable HAMR drives are first, the idea of using a laser to cram more bits onto a platter doesn't seem too great for long term data retention.

[bonami2]

14 minutes ago, Desolutional said:

Got to see how reliable HAMR drives are first, the idea of using a laser to cram more bits onto a platter doesn't seem too great for long term data retention.

That a really good point. I got faith they will be reliable with ssd dropping so fast in price they better make those cheaper and reliable 

[Airisom]

Maybe this will mean that current drives will get even cheaper in 2024. I've been eyeballing the amazon 2x 18TB exos refurb drives, and seeing those drop to around $350 would be a price I couldn't resist. 

[Desolutional]

Just now, bonami2 said:

That a really good point. I got faith they will be reliable with ssd dropping so fast in price they better make those cheaper and reliable 

I think once QLC (Quad Layer) production gets much cheaper and SSDs are sold at or below 2x the cost/GB a lot of consumers will move entirely to flash storage. QLC basically offers HDD performance in sequential write/read, but much better random IO speed.

One drawback to QLC is due to the amount of different voltage stages per cell it has far lower data retention when unpowered and lower read/write cycles.

[bonami2]

3 minutes ago, Desolutional said:

I think once QLC (Quad Layer) production gets much cheaper and SSDs are sold at or below 2x the cost/GB a lot of consumers will move entirely to flash storage. QLC basically offers HDD performance in sequential write/read, but much better random IO speed.

One drawback to QLC is due to the amount of different voltage stages per cell it has far lower data retention when unpowered and lower read/write cycles.

As time go ssd Read/Write cycles are getting lower but i never saw a failure in consumer use yet no idea if with increasing game size we will reach that point. Most people would be happy with a cheap 4/8tb nvme drive including myself