Seagate prepares 10TB hard drives

The hard disk manufacturers are engaged in a race to develop solutions with higher capacities. Storage needs of its customers, both companies and individuals, are constantly growing and they must maintain sustained growth. Each company addresses the challenge in different ways. Seagate has just unveiled their intentions for next year. Right now its higher capacity hard drives can store 8 terabytes (TB) of data. However, the company plans to soon announce new models 10 terabytes. To achieve this will keep betting on the same technology currently used, called SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) or magnetic recording overlay.

 Seagate does not rely on other technologies proposed by the competition, such as helium gas fillings hard drives, which is the Western Digital prefers. Those responsible for Seagate technology consider helium gases are too expensive to introduce it into affordable products. The SMR technology achieves 25 percent more capacity by increasing the number of tracks per inch on a single disc. The procedure used to achieve densities area is decreasing the space between tracks. The tracks are now superimposed over each other, like shingles on a roof. That way, you can write more data in the same space. According to new data will be written, album tracks are cut. Data can be read reliably track cut without affecting its integrity because the reader head unit is smaller than the write head.

 The SMR technology provides high reliability in data recovery and is also low power consumption. Also has the advantage of allowing use of traditional readers and write heads, which lowers production costs. So, Seagate has created these 8 TB hard drives capable of storing 1.33 TB per plate of the same disc, which currently markets. And during 2015, you can launch similar but 10TB products. It was not until the period between 2016 and 2017, when Seagate migrate to a new technology known as Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR), which will allow increased capacity of future drives between 20 and 30 percent each year.

 In September 2014, Seagate had its tough economic disks to cloud storage. It is high density units, with a high capacity of up to 8 terabytes (TB). The manufacturer claims to offer a low cost per TB with low power consumption. They are equipped with a system of balanced rotational vibration. These disks are 3.5 inches with a height of about 2.6 inches. They have a SATA 3 interface, which offers 6 Gbps (gigabits per second). Work at 5,900 rpm (revolutions per minute) and incorporate 6 plates and 12 reading heads. In short, are products that are designed to withstand workloads than 180 terabytes per year for 24 hours x 7 days a week.

Seagate prepares 10TB hard drives