Ideally, rarely used information must be stored on a capacious, slow and cheap drives. Return the form factor of 5.25 "part will solve the problem, because even when the recording density of 3 TB on a single platter hard drive of five platters will store up to 15 terabytes of information. Another thing is that to start production of the necessary components for the production of hard drives of this size will not be easy . In general, Seagate only hints that the emergence of a new form factor can be one of the ways to address the lack of storage facilities for the cold data.
The use of helium in the example of HGST Seagate consider inappropriate in mass production due to the high cost of technology and the unpredictability of such drives resource . But the technology of magnetic recording heated (HAMR) will significantly increase the density of information, according to Seagate representatives . The first hard drive with this technology the company expects to release in the next year, and by 2020 it is quite possible the emergence of storage capacity of 20 TB. Another promising direction of development of Seagate's considers the creation of hybrid products with solid-state memory, which stores the most frequently used information - it can significantly improve the performance of the disk system. Related Products :
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