Seagate
Seagate on Wednesday introduced its Exos X24 family of hard drives, it's highest capacity series of drives to date. The new family is comprised of both conventional magnetic recording technology (CMR) and shingled magnetic recording (SMR) models, with the CMR drive topping out at 24 TB, while SMR brings the peak capacity up to 28 TB. Both are, as of now, the highest-capacity HDDs in their respective segments. But perhaps the most important technological development with the Exos X24 lineup is that it uses a platform that will be largely re-used for the upcoming HAMR drives. The Seagate Exos X24 3.5-inch helium-filled hard drive family includes 12 TB, 16 TB, 20 TB, and 24 TB models, which are built using up to 10 2.4 TB...
Seagate Releases Game Drive PCIe 4.0 SSDs for PlayStation 5
Western Digital's WD_Black SN850P was the first officially PlayStation 5-licensed SSD to hit the market. Seagate wants a piece of that and has hopped on the PlayStation 5 train...
4 by Zhiye Liu on 10/3/2023
Seagate Ships First Commercial HAMR Hard Drives
Seagate announced this week that it had begun the first commercial revenue shipments of its next-generation HAMR hard drives, which are being shipped out as part of Seagate's latest...
3 by Anton Shilov on 7/28/2023
Seagate Announces FireCuda 540 PCIe Gen5 SSD
Flash-based computer storage has been improving in speed and capacity at breakneck pace over the last decade. M.2 NVMe SSDs have almost completely replaced SATA drives for primary storage...
3 by Ganesh T S on 6/27/2023
Western Digital Estimates HAMR HDDs to Emerge in 1.5 Years
Western Digital is somewhat behind its rival Seagate in adopting heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), which promises radical improvements to areal density and HDD capacities. Still, the company expects hard...
16 by Anton Shilov on 6/12/2023
Big Leap for Hard Drive Capacities: 32 TB HAMR Drives Due Soon, 40TB on Horizon
Offering a brief update on the future of hard drives, Seagate has shared some fresh insights concerning launch of its next generation hard drives featuring its heat-assisted magnetic recording...
29 by Anton Shilov on 6/8/2023
Seagate to Pay $300 Million Fine For Supplying Hard Drives to Huawei
The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security this week imposed a $300 million fine on Seagate for violating U.S. export control restrictions. The storage company has...
21 by Anton Shilov on 4/20/2023
Seagate Unveils IronWolf Pro 22TB HDD at 2023 NAB Show
Coinciding with the 2023 NAB Show starting this weekend, Seagate has come out with a couple of announcements today. The new hardware introduction is the updated flagship capacity option...
6 by Ganesh T S on 4/13/2023
Dropbox Shares Preparations for HAMR Hard Drives, Focusing On Reducing Drive Vibrations
Dropbox was among the first large cloud service providers (CSPs) providers to deploy hard drives that use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) to increase storage density of its datacenters. As...
4 by Anton Shilov on 3/13/2023
Seagate Confirms 30TB+ HAMR HDDs in Q3, Envisions 50TB Drives in a Few Years
Seagate this week confirmed plans to launch the industry's first 30+ TB hard drive that uses its heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology, as well as reaffirming its commitment...
70 by Anton Shilov on 1/27/2023
Best Internal Hard Drives: Holiday 2022
Data storage requirements have kept increasing over the last several years. While SSDs have taken over the role of the primary drive in most computing systems, hard drives continue...
44 by Ganesh T S on 11/4/2022
Phison and Seagate Announce X1 SSD Platform: U.3 PCIe 4.0 x4 with 128L eTLC
Phison and Seagate have been collaborating on SSDs since 2017 in the client as well as SMB/SME space. In April 2022, they had announced a partnership to develop and...
15 by Ganesh T S on 8/2/2022
Seagate Introduces AMD EPYC-Based Exos Application Platform: Up To 1.344PB in 5U
Seagate's Application Platform (AP) series of servers have targeted the market segments requiring tightly coupled storage and compute capabilities. The currently available SKUs - The Exos AP series with...
5 by Ganesh T S on 12/14/2021
Seagate Exos X20 and IronWolf Pro 20TB Expand Retail 20TB HDD Options
Seagate has updated their flagship capacity options for the retail HDD market with the availability announcement for two new hard drives today - the Exos X20 and IronWolf Pro...
10 by Ganesh T S on 12/2/2021
Seagate Updates Game Drive SSD for Xbox with New Look and Internals
Seagate has been maintaining a line of Xbox-certified external SSDs since late 2016. The current Game Drive for Xbox SSD is based on the Seagate Fast SSD's internals and...
19 by Ganesh T S on 10/7/2021
Seagate Introduces IronWolf 525 PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSDs for NAS Systems
Seagate's IronWolf series of drives for network-attached storage systems has gained significant traction in its market segments. One of the primary reasons has been the breadth of offerings -...
9 by Ganesh T S on 9/21/2021
Seagate FireCuda Gaming SSD Review: RGB-Infused USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Storage
The gaming market has experienced significant growth over the last decade. In addition to boosting PC sales, the peripherals market associated with the segment has also expanded. Installed sizes...
17 by Ganesh T S on 8/27/2021
Seagate Announces FireCuda 530 PCIe 4.0 SSD at SG21
The gaming segment continues to experience rapid growth in the PC market, and we have seen PC component vendors come up with launch events specifically targeting gamers. Seagate's...
23 by Ganesh T S on 6/23/2021
Seagate Signs HAMR Deal with Showa Denko: Secures Second Source for HAMR Platters
Seagate this week signed an agreement with Showa Denko in a bid to secure a second source of platters for its hard drives based on heat assisted magnetic recording...
17 by Anton Shilov on 6/11/2021
Seagate Unveils FireCuda-Branded External HDD Solutions
Seagate has been marketing their gaming-focused storage products under the FireCuda brand over the last few years. With a focus on performance, these products have typically been flash-based and/or...
23 by Ganesh T S on 4/21/2021
Facebook
Twitter
RSS
