The coolest hard drive tech in 20 years #Helpful Post

 

The coolest hard drive tech in 20 years #Helpful Post

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so we're here in Seagate and we don't

actually cover hard drives every time

because let's face it they're really

really boring every year it's like oK

we've got some more capacity and like it

might go a bit faster who also we've got

green on our stickers now but this is

different

so Seagate's been working on a

technology called heat assisted magnetic

recording or hammer since 1999 and the

first time they built a drive using this

technology it lasted for a grand total

of one that sector worth of rights and

then it was destroyed so to call it up

concept at that stage is probably being

generous with that said they've been

hard at work on it for the last 20 years

and they are finally at the point where

they are ready to announce that hammer

drives will be shipping to customers

this year so how does it work then you

can actually see a live feed of a hammer

head totally intentional I'm sure so

that's the drive head and it's hammer

technology writing data to the platter

that is running live next to me right

here and every time it moves around

you're gonna see a flash that's the head

heating up the platter to approximately

450 degrees Celsius completely wiping

out any data that was already there and

rewriting it this allows them to get

better areal density to the point where

we should see if they stay on target 20

terabyte drives by the year 2020 so this

drive right here combines their hammer

technology with their shield helium

drive technology which gives us the

power consumption savings that you'd

expect from a modern drive as well

now reliability remember that story at

the beginning how long are these things

going to last so they have had tests

running in their lab for the last 18

months where they have individual heads

that have seen over 8,000 hours of just

constant rates going through them to put

that in perspective that's up

petabyte and a half of data that's been

written through a single head about

equivalent to the entire Netflix library

that is if the internet is to be

believed so who's it going to be

reliable well I mean I think that guy's

job depends on it so let's go with yeah

for his sake but hammer doesn't solve

all of the hard drive industry's

problems something that I've noticed in

Seagate has had other customers point

out to them is that as these drive

capacities get higher and higher and

higher

without a performance improvement to

match we're getting to the point where

it's kind of like what happened with SD

cards before they've got past you know

20 to 30 megabytes a second of write

speeds where you'd like get a new SD

card or a thumb drive and you'd be like

yeah so this is you know a terabyte or

whatever but it would take me literally

weeks to fill it with data like it's

it's not really useful anymore so to

address that there's Mach 2 and oh sorry

this is actually running oh it's like

warm and what Mach 2 is it's really cool

so they've got a glass top on this drive

so we can see exactly what's happening

but in effect in a multi platter drive

so most of the top ones here are glass

so you can see the two actuator arms

moving independently of each other so it

uses a single SAS interface which takes

advantage of Sasa's ability to have two

sort of virtual ports available for a

single cable connected to a single

connector so the drives firmware and

processor take the incoming stream of

data and split it between the two

separate heads this effectively doubles

the eye ops performance of this drive

compared to a normal drive which would

run off of a single actuator arm which

brings us finally to the most

controversial item here in the Seagate

booth I've had everything from eye rolls

to speaking directly to the person whose

pet project this is but this is the you

know what I forget the name so I'm going

to call it the hard drive zamboni and

what it effectively is is a like

fiberglass shell with like these tread

style you know

remover type you know treads on the

front that contains a for you server

rack so the idea is that Amazon has a

product called

what if they got they got snowball which

is a little one they've got snowmobile

which I think like a semi-trailer where

the idea is they've got these high-speed

interfaces where you pull these things

up to your data center offload

everything and like literally drive it

somewhere because it's faster than

trying to send it over the internet so

this is supposed to be like kind of like

the middle stage where you like load a

bunch of data onto it and then you like

drive it over somewhere and it could be

like battery power - then you could

offload it and that might be faster than

using a network so imma let you guys

decide the controversy for me is this

something the world needs more of or

something the world needs less of let me

know in the comments below

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nothing we're done now this one might

get released like earlier because the

editors I don't know how they do the

things they do so there might actually

be more coming but I'm done

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