Seagate brings next year a hard drive on the market with a storage capacity of 10TB. The drive will consist of six platters based on the shingled magnetic recording technology. Drives with enclosures that are helium filled, Seagate is too expensive.
Seagate gave earlier this year, a hint that there are 10TB drives coming, but in an interview with the Japanese site Akiba, confirms a senior executive of Seagate Japan that the drives in 2015 should appear. The drives of six platters. That means that Seagate, the storage density has managed to improve compared to the last year released 8TB drives.
Also these drives contain six platters, with which the capacity per platter on 1,33 TB. The 10TB version is at 1.67 TB per platter. Seagate is making use of the smr technology, which allows the storage capacity annually 20 to 30 percent should be able to increase. Smr has some disadvantages with respect to speed, but Seagate claims this partly can be solved by increasing the cache size. The hdds appear as ‘archive’models and are not as a boot drive specified.
Seagate wants to the drives for a low price to offer and will, therefore, smr continued to focus. Alternative techniques to helium-filled hdd enclosures are going to the group to not use, since the cost is too high. Competitor HGST uses helium for its 10TB hard drives.
