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Seagate Technology has announced a unique hard disk drive for mobile computers that can store 2TB of data and is packed with exclusive technologies. The new ultra-slim HDD features shingled magnetic recording platters with extreme areal density as well as all-new mechanics.

The new 2TB HDD from Seagate comes in 2.5” form-factor and is only 7mm thick. The drive is based on two 1TB SMR platters with industry-leading areal density as well as new high-spatial efficiency mechanics, including new head, preamp, channel and other components. The usage of new mechanics allowed Seagate to pack two platters into a 7mm drive and reduce weight of the HDD to 3.17 oz. The drive uses Serial ATA interface, but Seagate does not disclose its spindle speed, cache capacity and so on.

“In an industry first, our engineers have been able to boost areal density to 1TB per platter in a 2.5-inch form factor, which will give OEMs the flexibility to design and build virtually any kind of mobile device they can envision, with plenty of storage to boot,” said Mark Re, Seagate’s chief technology officer. “Combining new mechanical firmware architectures, with state of the art heads, media and electronic design, this technology is a real game changer- providing four times more capacity than a 0.25TB SSD at a substantially lower cost.”

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The SMR platters with extreme areal density will allow Seagate to build hard drives with even higher capacity than the drive announced this week. If the company has technologies for 1TB 2.5” platters, it means that it can also produce 2TB 3.5” platters, which will enable 10TB hard drives with 5 platters.

Seagate did not reveal whether 1TB SMR platters are made in-house, or by Showa Denko K.K. Earlier this year SDK introduced 750TB platters for 2.5” HDDs, but promised to release 1TB platters for such drives at a later date.

“The notebook PC continues to be an important productivity tool, especially for content creators who are producing an enormous volume of data,” said John Rydning, IDC’s research vice president for hard disk drives. “Seagate’s new ultra-mobile HDD technology is ground breaking for Seagate and the HDD industry, making it possible for notebook PC users to have generous storage capacity in a thin and light PC.”

Pricing of the new drive is unclear, but it will naturally cost more than competing solutions thanks to unique advantages it offers.

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KitGuru Says: The new HDD from Seagate is clearly unique and will enable thin-and-light laptops with unprecedented storage capabilities. Unfortunately, SMR-based HDDs are not performance champs, which means that such PCs will be rather slow even when compared to laptops with HDDs.

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Seagate unveils world’s first 2.5-inch 4TB HDD with 800GB platters https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/anton-shilov/seagate-unveils-worlds-first-2-5-inch-4tb-hdd-with-leading-edge-800gb-platters/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/anton-shilov/seagate-unveils-worlds-first-2-5-inch-4tb-hdd-with-leading-edge-800gb-platters/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2015 22:25:38 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=255052 Seagate Technology on Wednesday introduced Samsung Spinpoint M10P hard disk drive, which features 4TB capacity and 2.5”/15mm form-factor. The drive will initially be used inside the company’s external HDD products, but HDDs based on the same leading-edge platters will address other applications eventually. Seagate, which acquired hard disk drive manufacturing assets from Samsung back in …

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Seagate Technology on Wednesday introduced Samsung Spinpoint M10P hard disk drive, which features 4TB capacity and 2.5”/15mm form-factor. The drive will initially be used inside the company’s external HDD products, but HDDs based on the same leading-edge platters will address other applications eventually.

Seagate, which acquired hard disk drive manufacturing assets from Samsung back in 2011 and continues to use this brand for select products, on Wednesday introduced two new Samsung-branded external hard disk drives that not only set a new bar for compact external storage, but also use 2.5” platters with record capacity of 800GB. In fact, the Samsung M3 and Samsung P3 drives significantly redefine Seagate’s positions in the market.

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Samsung M3 Portable

Seagate’s Samsung M3 Portable (with enhanced endurance) and P3 Portable (with sleek design) 4TB external hard disk drives are based on the all-new Spinpoint M10P 2.5” hard drive. The new external storage devices feature USB 3.0 interface (with up to 5Gb/s peak bandwidth), they weigh only 373 grams (8.3 ounces) and are only 19.85mm thick (0.78”). The drives require USB power and thus are pretty energy-efficient.

“Previously only attainable in desktop or bulky multi-drive internal designs, we can now achieve a 4TB capacity in a compact drive thanks to the latest Samsung HDD technology,” said Dave Klenske, director of product line management at Samsung HDD.

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Samsung Spinpoint

The Spinpoint M10P is based on five 800GB platters, which presumably use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology. The drive likely uses Serial ATA-6Gb/s interface, but other specifications, such as spindle speed, cache size and latency are unknown.

“The Spinpoint M10P 4TB hard drive enables this innovation with the highest aerial density, 800GB per disk in the world,” said Doug DeHaan, general manager of Samsung HDD division. “With consumer demand for external storage capacity continuing to grow, the P3 and M3 4TB answer the increasing appetite for storage and are positioned to lead future capacity needs from the mobile market.”

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Samsung P3 Portable

The biggest intrigue about the new Spinpoint M10P hard disk drives is the manufacturer of platters. For many years Showa Denko K. K., the last remaining independent producer of HDD platters and heads, has been manufacturing platters with the highest areal density in the industry. Earlier this year SDK introduced its eighth-generation perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) platters for 2.5” HDDs that can store 750GB of data. Unless the company has quietly unveiled its new media for portable drives with even higher capacity, it means that Seagate made the new 800GB platters in-house.

Production of platters with leading-edge areal density is something that is hard to overestimate. If Seagate can mass product 800GB SMR media for 2.5” HDDs, it can also make 3.5” SMR platters with 1.5TB – 1.6TB capacity. Such media opens doors to enterprise-class six-platter hard drives with 9TB – 9.6TB capacity. Moreover, if Seagate can produce leading-edge platters itself, it will not have to buy them from Showa Denko and can therefore improve its profit margins.

The Samsung 4TB M3 and MP Portable hard drives made by Seagate will be available in late June through authorized distributors.

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KitGuru Says: 800GB platters for portable hard drives is nothing, but a breakthrough. It is unlikely that Seagate will use SMR platters for all of its drives any time soon because of performance concerns, but a 4TB 2.5” HDD is a remarkable achievement.

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Seagate readies 2.5-inch HDD with over 2TB capacity https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/anton-shilov/seagate-readies-2-5-inch-hdd-with-over-2tb-capacity/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/anton-shilov/seagate-readies-2-5-inch-hdd-with-over-2tb-capacity/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2015 23:07:30 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=245949 Seagate Technology late last week revealed plans to introduce a 2.5” hard disk drive with over 2TB capacity. The company did not reveal any additional technical details about the product, but said that it would be released in the next couple of quarters. “Our 2TB 2.5-inch [hard disk] drive still leads the industry in areal …

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Seagate Technology late last week revealed plans to introduce a 2.5” hard disk drive with over 2TB capacity. The company did not reveal any additional technical details about the product, but said that it would be released in the next couple of quarters.

“Our 2TB 2.5-inch [hard disk] drive still leads the industry in areal density and will be refreshed in the next two quarters to a higher capacity, maintaining our leadership,” said Dave Mosley, president of operations and technology at Seagate, during the company’s conference call with investors and financial analysts. “We look forward to pushing these areal density improvements into the majority of our products in fiscal year 2016.”

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Earlier this year Showa Denko K.K., an independent producer of platters for hard disk drives, announced its first eighth-generation perpendicular magnetic recording platters for HDDs. The eighth-gen media has unprecedented areal density and is designed for 2.5” hard drives. Capacity of the new platter is 750GB, which allows to build dual-platter HDDs with 1.5TB capacity as well as triple-platter hard drives with 2.25TB capacity.

Showa Denko also intends to accelerate its development of next generation 2.5” HD media with storage capacity of 1TB. It is unclear when exactly such platters emerge on the market, but Seagate could use them to build dual-platter 2TB HDDs as well as triple-platter 3TB HDDs for notebooks.

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KitGuru Says: It will be very interesting to see what exactly Seagate plans to launch. 2.25TB capacity does not look like a breakthrough, but 3TB HDD that actually fits into laptops seems to be a very interesting product.

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Showa Denko to enable 10TB HDDs with eighth-generation PMR media https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/anton-shilov/showa-denko-enables-extreme-hdd-capacities-with-eighth-generation-pmr-media/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/anton-shilov/showa-denko-enables-extreme-hdd-capacities-with-eighth-generation-pmr-media/#respond Fri, 06 Feb 2015 23:59:50 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=234526 Showa Denko K.K., an independent producer of platters for hard disk drives, has announced its first eighth-generation perpendicular magnetic recording platters for HDDs. The first eighth-gen media is aimed at hard drives in 2.5” form-factor and has 750GB capacity. Toshiba will use such platters for its latest 3TB 2.5” HDDs. The new-generation media opens doors to …

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Showa Denko K.K., an independent producer of platters for hard disk drives, has announced its first eighth-generation perpendicular magnetic recording platters for HDDs. The first eighth-gen media is aimed at hard drives in 2.5” form-factor and has 750GB capacity. Toshiba will use such platters for its latest 3TB 2.5” HDDs. The new-generation media opens doors to 3.5″ HDDs with up to 10TB capacity.

The new 2.5” hard media that SDK plans to start to ship in March is classified as the eighth-generation of PMR media. It has unprecedented areal density and 750GB capacities, which will allow companies like Seagate, Toshiba or even Western Digital to build dual-platter 2.5” HDDs with 1.5TB capacities. The new platters will also enable ultra-thin hard drives with one platter that can store 750GB of data.

The advances in areal density that the eighth-generation PMR media technology provides will also enable 3.5” hard drive platters with up to 1.5TB capacity. Platters that can store 1.5TB of data will enable Seagate to make six-platter HDDs with up to 9TB capacities, whereas WD/HGST will be able to build seven-platter hard drives with up to 10.5TB capacities.

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It is noteworthy that SDK’s seventh-generation and eighth-generation PMR platters offer capacities comparable to platters based on the shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology. PMR platters enable higher performance than SMR platters.

Showa Denko also plans to accelerate the development of next generation 2.5” HD media with storage capacity of 1TB. The company does not reveal whether the new tech will use PMR, SMR or heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology.

High-capacity HDD media from SDK is primarily used by Seagate and Toshiba, who do not manufacture high-capacity platters in-house, like Western Digital and HGST do.

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KitGuru Says: It is interesting to note that Toshiba introduced HDDs featuring the platters well before Showa Denko introduced its new 750GB 2.5” hard drive media and months before the devices hit mass production. Looks like capacity wars on the market of hard disk drives are heating up.

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