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  • CrazyElf - Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - link

    First of all, it looks like it is not a big improvement in terms of overall areal density compared to the competition. The main cause of the high capacity is more platters (9 vs 8 on competing 14TB drives), although that is arguably an improvement of sorts.

    We will have to wait and see what the final numbers are like to see if they sacrificed any performance to achieve their storage capacity.
  • melgross - Friday, January 11, 2019 - link

    As the article says, performance should be higher, not lower.
  • jabber - Thursday, January 10, 2019 - link

    Single platter version please! Obviously not at 16TB of storage but I'll take a 2TB single platter version of this tech.
  • Storage Follower - Saturday, January 12, 2019 - link

    I read a lot of storage articles so lets put some of their facts on here. Seagate are already deploying 16TB HAMR drives into OEM cloud customers. So the claim of Tosh being first is not justified. But if they use the spin of the first 16TB TDMR I suppose thats how they can make this claim. Misleading. Seagate are the capacity leaders with true deployment across multiple segments not just Enterprise and have been for while now. Their technology surpasses the others and shows the industry a path to 100tb on a 3.5", not to mention their Mach 2 multi actuator doubling HDD speeds. Only recently WD have released an article on this which is 2yrs behind Seagstes first annoucement. WD articles seem to question their $100 million investment into their MAMR and considering changing the focus onto HAMR so again this helps people realise maybe Seagate have got it bang on. In context Seagate have spent $2 billion on HAMR. You wouldnt spend that unless your certain of what is required for the future of data storage. They have had these units in deployment and stress tested for 3 years, they demo working drives at exhibitions the others do not when making these claims. Time will tell but if I was going to bet on who's right to keep in pace with all the technology advancements, Seagate would get my backing no question.

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