Seagate: 100TB HDDs Due in 2030, Multi-Actuator Drives to Become Common

[delete12345]

Seagate is on track to deliver ~50TB hard disk drives by 2026, ~100TB HDDs by 2030, and 120TB+ units early next decade, according to the company's recently revealed product and technology roadmaps.

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Seagate says that it is on track to build a 50TB hard drive sometime in 2026 and a 100TB HDD in 2030.

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In a bid to build a nine-platter 40TB hard drive, Seagate needs to increase the areal density of its media to around 2600Gb/in2 (2.6Tb/in2). Seagate has already achieved such areal density, though it is unclear whether the company already has prototypes of hard drives running such platters, or only tests them on spinstands.

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Seagate: 100TB HDDs Due in 2030, Multi-Actuator Drives to Become Common

Seagate demonstrates path towards 120TB HDDs.

www.tomshardware.com

This should solve your storage space problems. Delete me and my data if old.

 

[gothmog]

Please don't tell the Call of Duty dev teams.

 

[delete12345]

I still won't believe there will be a 100TB Call of Duty with all the season pass and expansion packs installed.

I refuse to believe it.

 

[Vimto]

Just in time for cod 20, whew

 

[Earvin Infinity]

100TB NVMe let's go.

 

[nsilvias]

R/datahoarders will be happy about this

 

[RCSI]

Only 100TB, thought it would be more.

 

[Ocean Bones]

COD team looking at their next patch now:

 

[Arex]

HDD? I wonder how long it'd take to fill it to full capacity or copy 100TB data from it lol

 

[mugurumakensei]

100 TB? Cool, should install 3 CoD campaigns or 1 campaign and multiplayer that year.

 

[Josh5890]

And to think I thought a 60GB HDD on a PS3 meant I would never have to worry about space ever again

 

[Pwnz]

Based on what I can see on amazon with the current mega capacity HDDs, read speed looks maybe double of pre-SSD era drives Random read/write IO probably horrendous, how are they going to handle that? Or maybe they don't and the application here is slow speed cloud storage.

 

[Deleted member 4212]

So I should be good with my 2 bay nas then

 

[Pwnz]

HDD? I wonder how long it'd take to fill it to full capacity or copy 100TB data from it lol

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Right? Just imagine trillions of files, copy pasta....calculating....2 days later eta 5 years and 2 minutes

 

[Musubi]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who instantly thought of Call of Duty. 😂😂😂

 

[zombiejames]

HDD? I wonder how long it'd take to fill it to full capacity or copy 100TB data from it lol

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At 50MB/s... over three weeks.

 

[thepenguin55]

Well for a cool $40k you can buy a 100tb SSD

https://www.techradar.com/news/at-100tb-the-worlds-biggest-ssd-gets-an-eye-watering-price-tag

 

[nihilence]

HDD, what about SSD?

 

[big_z]

Other than mass storage and backup for servers I don't see much value in HDD going forward. I think Linus even mentioned a lot of data centres moving to sdd already.

 

[ThereAreFourNaan]

imagine rebuilding a raid volume

 

[nightstalker962]

Seagate: We've got a 100 TB hard drive.

Activision: Hold my beer.

 

[kmfdmpig]

And to think I thought a 60GB HDD on a PS3 meant I would never have to worry about space ever again

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Back in 1994 I thought a 540 megabyte drive would be more than I'd ever need. A few years later it was a 2 gigabyte drive that I thought would do the same. Now, I have a 14TB external drive that is mostly full. I wonder if the rate of data storage acceleration will slow now that we're likely going to be at 4K content (video and games) for a while.

 

[Nostremitus]

Only 100TB, thought it would be more.

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Waiting for the Linus video where he replaces all the drives in his petabyte servers with these...

 

[Regiruler]

It's insane to me how much storage we can fit in such a small space.

 

[Dizastah]

Just how fast will these 100TB HDDs be?

 

[Pixieking]

Errrrrr... I don't think I want 100tb of data on a Seagate drive. I've had so many fail I don't even consider buying them anymore.

 

[SgtCobra]

Please don't tell the Call of Duty dev teams.

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Hahahaha bet they're foaming at the mouth right now jkjk

 

[orava]

That's a lot of data to lose at once.

 

[Pottuvoi]

Well for a cool $40k you can buy a 100tb SSD

https://www.techradar.com/news/at-100tb-the-worlds-biggest-ssd-gets-an-eye-watering-price-tag

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Yup.

SSD has bypassed HDD in size as well as speed.
Price per GB is still higher, but in general workflows SSD is much better choice.

HDD might be better for slow backup purposes though.

 

[Guts Of Thor]

HDD? I wonder how long it'd take to fill it to full capacity or copy 100TB data from it lol

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You can fit one entire call of duty game on it.

 

[formasymphonic]

Came in here ready to make a CoD joke but glad to see the first 3 posts fulfilled that duty.

 

[ApexNorth]

What's a multi-actuator drive?

 

[sir_crocodile]

What's a multi-actuator drive?

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iirc if you imagine a mechanical hard drive as a record player, think of a multi-actuator drive as two record players inside the same drive, with each disc being able to be read in tandem by a different arm.

--edit, found a more technical explanation lol: https://blog.seagate.com/craftsman-ship/multi-actuator-technology-a-new-performance-breakthrough/

 

[ApexNorth]

iirc if you imagine a mechanical hard drive as a record player, think of a multi-actuator drive as two record players inside the same drive, with each disc being able to be read in tandem by a different arm.

--edit, found a more technical explanation lol: https://blog.seagate.com/craftsman-ship/multi-actuator-technology-a-new-performance-breakthrough/

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Thank you, very interesting!