Αυτοί είναι οι ισχυρότεροι. Η εταιρία κατάφερε και ανέβασε χάρη στη δική της τεχνολογία heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) τον πήχη και πήγε στα 16TB τα enterprise δισκάκια σε 3.5′.
Η εταιρία δε ετοιμάζεται και για 20TB μέχρι το 2020.
Η Seagate χρησιμοποίησε για τα 16TB μια pre-release έκδοση της τεχνολογίας HAMR-based Exos και οι δοκιμές επιβεβαίωσαν πως τα HAMR drives είναι plug-and-play και έτσι δεν χρειάζεται να αλλάζουν αρχιτεκτονική σε data centers οι εταιρίες.
“Seagate has begun running early Exos HAMR units through the full set of standard benchmark tests used to prepare and optimize each new hard drive product for deployment,” είπε ο κ.Jason Feist, Seagate senior director of enterprise product line management. “Our testing has demonstrated the drives’ compatibility for enterprise systems that are being used today. No system level changes are needed to run the HAMR drives in these evaluations, or to deploy them in customer environments.”
“The Exos HAMR drives run like all other drives in a standard suite of integration benchmarks. At this point in early testing, they’re meeting our expectations for how a drive should interact in each benchmark,” λέει ο Feist. “These are the same tests that customers use to qualify every new drive, including power efficiency tests, sg3_utils utilities that test SCSI commands to devices, standard smartmontools utility programs that will enable customers to characterize and compare HAMR drives in their environment right next to PMR drives, and several four-corners tests of reads, writes, random, sequential and mixed workloads.”
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