30TB HAMR HDDs this year

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Be curious to see what their sequential transfer speeds are. Assuming 10 discs, that's 3TB/platter which should be quite fast.

 

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Now shipping to certain data center clients.

Seagate Starts Shipment of Extra High Capacity HAMR HDDs to Data Center Client

Seagate is celebrating the debut shipment of very sophisticated storage solutions to a preferred client (dealing in the cloud data center sector). These 30+ terabyte hard drives are based on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology - the American data storage company is setting up its...

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C'mon, I know you all want one. They're perfect for those behemoth ~200GB game installs coming out these days.