{"id":60956,"date":"2024-01-18T15:07:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T07:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=60956"},"modified":"2024-01-18T15:07:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T07:07:34","slug":"seagate-launches-30tb-hard-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2024\/01\/18\/seagate-launches-30tb-hard-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Seagate launches 30TB+ hard drives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SeagateTechnology Holdings plc, a world leader in sustainable mass-data storage solutions, announced a milestone that marks a new era in the storage industry.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company launched the Mozaic 3+ hard drive platform\u2014which incorporates Seagate\u2019s trailblazing implementation of Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) technology. The launch heralds unparalleled areal densities of 3TB+ per platter\u2014and a roadmap that will achieve 4TB+ and 5TB+ per platter in the coming years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mozaic 3+ platform powers Seagate\u2019s flagship Exos product family, with newly announced, industry-leading capacity points of 30TB and beyond. Exos 30TB+ products are shipping in volume this quarter to hyperscale cloud customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seagate\u2019s areal density innovation\u2014which increases the number of bits that can be stored on a platter\u2014addresses common industry pain points. Mozaic 3+ enables customers to store more data in the same floor space than ever before. Upgrading from a 16TB conventional perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) drive (the average capacity in large-scale data centers) to an Exos 30TB Mozaic 3+ technology drive effectively doubles capacity in the same footprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The platform uses roughly the same material components as PMR hard drives while dramatically increasing capacity, allowing data centers to significantly lower storage acquisition and operational costs\u2014including a 40% improvement in per terabyte power consumption. Mozaic 3+ can also help customers achieve sustainability goals\u2014a top priority for large-scale data centers\u2014by offering a 55% reduction in embodied carbon per terabyte (when comparing a 30TB Mozaic 3+ drive with a traditional 16TB PMR drive).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seagate is experiencing strong demand from data center customers that are expected to complete qualification of Mozaic 3+ and move into volume ramp by end of this quarter. A leading cloud service provider is focused on ramping of Seagate-provided drives to Mozaic 3+, reflecting their confidence in the technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSeagate is the world\u2019s only hard drive manufacturer with the areal density capability to get to 3TB per platter and with 5TB on the horizon,\u201d said Dave Mosley, Seagate\u2019s CEO. \u201cAs AI use cases put a premium on raw data sets, more companies are going to need to store all the data they can. To accommodate the resulting masses of data, areal density matters more than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Mozaic 3+ platform represents more than just HAMR technology,\u201d Mosley noted. \u201cIt comprises several industry-first innovations that we\u2019ve integrated to help us scale areal density.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a few highlights:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Superlattice Platinum-Alloy Media<\/strong>. Fundamental physics of higher-density recording requires smaller media grain size at nanoscale. The challenge here is that smaller grains are more unstable. Legacy alloys do not provide sufficient magnetic stability for effective and reliable storage. In Mozaic 3+ hard drives, the media alloy uses a pioneering iron-platinum superlattice structure, which significantly increases the magnetic coercivity of disk media. This allows for precise data writing and unprecedented bit stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Plasmonic Writer<\/strong>. Since the media are made magnetically \u201charder\u201d to prevent instability, the design requires a revolutionary writer\u2014a marvel of miniaturization and precision engineering that is Seagate\u2019s unique implementation of HAMR. Anchoring this technology is a nanophotonic laser,which produces an infinitesimal heat spot on the media surface to reliably write the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seagate plans to vertically integrate the nanophotonic laser into the plasmonic writer sub-system. \u201cDeveloping this unique laser technology in-house for Mozaic 3+ will ensure even greater efficiency and yield to support rapid scaling of volume production,\u201d Mosley said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Gen 7 Spintronic Reader.<\/strong> Smaller grains of written data are only useful if they can be read. Integrated along with the sub-components of the plasmonic writer, the reader also needed to evolve. Incorporating quantum technology, Mozaic 3+ includes one of the world’s smallest and most sensitive magnetic field reading sensors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. 12nm Integrated Controller. <\/strong>Efficiently orchestrating all this technology called for an integrated controller, a system-on-a-chip, developed entirely in house<\/a>. This sophisticated application-specific integrated circuit delivers up to 3 times the performance compared to prior solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHard drive areal density improvements are critical for economically and efficiently expanding the installed base of hard drive-based mass storage, especially in data centers,\u201d said John Rydning, Research Vice President, IDC Global DataSphere. \u201cSeagate\u2019s innovative areal density breakthrough is timely and will enable it to deliver increasingly higher capacity hard drive products for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to data centers, Mozaic 3+ storage technology will enable a wide range of use cases, ranging from enterprise, to edge, NAS, and video and imaging applications (VIA) markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The launch heralds unparalleled areal densities of 3TB+ per platter\u2014and a roadmap that will achieve 4TB+ and 5TB+ per platter in the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":60961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19],"tags":[596,208,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-60956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-laptops-computers","category-headlines","tag-memory","tag-seagate","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}