With SSDs, the days of the SATA interface seem numbered. Almost all new releases use the PCIe interface with NVMe protocol instead. In the long term, this could also happen with hard disk drives (HDD). There is now a photo of the announced first NVMe HDD from Seagate.
Almost exactly a year ago, Seagate presented something very unusual at the OCP Global Summit: The Prototypes of the “world's first native NVMe HDD,” as Seagate proclaimed at the time. However, the idea that mechanical magnetic storage devices such as SSDs will eventually switch from SATA to NVMe goes back even further.
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There is still no specific date for the market launch of Seagate's NVMe hard drives. But a photo has now been published on Twitter that shows a near-series version under Seagate's Enterprise brand Exos. According to the caption, the pattern was produced in October 2022, but is for use under Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) only.
Seagate's first NVMe HDD (Image: Seagate)
NVMe HDD server demo (Image: Seagate)Last year, Seagate promised the first test samples for close business partners for September 2022. It should be something like this. According to the plan at the time, developer samples for commercial use were not to follow until mid-2024.
On the NVMe protocol side, the course for hard drives has already been set: With NVMe 2.0, the Added support for HDDs. But it will probably be a few more years before they are ready.