Seagate has announced the launch of a new generation of hard drives based on heat -assisted magnetic recording technology (HAMR), which also use other suppliers such as WD. They are marketed under the series Exon M (designed for use in data centers for ia) e Ironwolf Pro (focused on NAS systems for use of local) and have a storage capacity of up to 30 tbytes.
These discs are designed to satisfy the growing demand for scalable storage required by the rise of implementations for the insatiable AI, which are joining the development of traditional business infrastructure. Although hard drives are not the best means in terms of performance when compared to flash -based units, they are still essential in world storage for their great capacity in capacity and Price, as Memsa Banda, Senior Vice President of Edge Storage and Services of seagate:
“The data centers (local, private and sovereign) are taking advantage of the AI to release the value of their owners.
Seagate’s new hard drives are the first HAMR based on their technology Mosaic 3+which marks an important milestone for both the company and the storage industry, since they promise to achieve an unprecedented storage density.
New 30 TB hard drives use the most widespread 3.5 -inch format and work at a 7200 rpm rotation speed, also standard for high -performance hard -class hard -class discs, which balances energy performance and consumption.
The units Exos m of 30 TB and 28 TB and Ironwolf Pro of 30 TB and 28 TB They are already available in the Seagate online store, as well as through Seagate authorized distributors and channel partners worldwide. The recommended price of the most capacity units is $ 599.