Seagate plans | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Sat, 31 Jan 2015 15:22:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Seagate plans | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Seagate: We will refresh entire HDD and SSD lineup this year https://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/anton-shilov/seagate-we-will-refresh-entire-hdd-and-ssd-lineup-this-year/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/anton-shilov/seagate-we-will-refresh-entire-hdd-and-ssd-lineup-this-year/#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2015 15:16:09 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=233383 Seagate Technology, one of the top makers of hard disk drives, said this week that it would introduce an unprecedented amount of new products this calendar year. The company’s management naturally did not provide any details, but expect the manufacturer to release better solid-state drives as well as higher capacity hard disk drives. “We [plan to] …

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Seagate Technology, one of the top makers of hard disk drives, said this week that it would introduce an unprecedented amount of new products this calendar year. The company’s management naturally did not provide any details, but expect the manufacturer to release better solid-state drives as well as higher capacity hard disk drives.

“We [plan to] refresh nearly our entire HDD and SSD product portfolio this calendar year,” said Steve Luczo, chairman and chief executive officer of Seagate, during the company’s quarterly conference call with investors and financial analysts.

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Seagate offers a broad portfolio of hard disk drives designed for consumers, commercial PCs and enterprise systems. Refreshing this family of products will include increasing capacities of hard drives using new platters, improving their performance as well as introducing all-new products designed for emerging segments of the market. In the recent quarters Seagate already introduced certain mission-specific HDDs that are optimized not only for particular market segments, but for a specific tasks (e.g., cold data storage, enterprise NAS, small business NAS, etc.).

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When it comes to solid-state drives, Seagate addresses various OEMs and enterprise customers with its SSDs as well as Nytro flash accelerator cards. Since last year Seagate acquired SandForce flash controllers business from Avago Technologies, it is logical to expect the company to start using its own controllers for at least some of its SSDs. What remains to be seen is whether the company will finally introduce a competitive lineup of solid-state drives for consumers and enthusiasts.

Product launches as well as development of future products will require Seagate to increase its research and development (R&D) spending.

“We are planning for operating expenses of approximately $570 million in both the March and the June quarters,” said Mr. Luczo. “These expenses include some increases in core R&D […] as well as investments in our new market adjacencies.”

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KitGuru Says: While it will clearly be very interesting to see what Seagate introduces for the market of hard disk drives and how exactly it will improve its HDDs this year, the most intriguing thing is Seagate’s plan regarding SSDs for client PCs.

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Seagate to release 10TB hard disk drive next year https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/anton-shilov/seagate-to-release-10tb-hard-disk-drive-next-year/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/anton-shilov/seagate-to-release-10tb-hard-disk-drive-next-year/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2014 23:59:49 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=227825 Seagate Technology is on track to rapidly boost capacity of hard disk drives for datacenters and will release a 10TB model in 2015. The company currently has no plans to manufacture helium-filled HDDs since such technology is too expensive. However, Seagate intends to use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology next year and pins a lot …

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Seagate Technology is on track to rapidly boost capacity of hard disk drives for datacenters and will release a 10TB model in 2015. The company currently has no plans to manufacture helium-filled HDDs since such technology is too expensive. However, Seagate intends to use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology next year and pins a lot of hopes on heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology going forward.

Seagate’s 10TB HDD will sport six 1.66TB SMR platters, Seagate revealed in an interview with Akiba PC Hotline. The company admits that performance of such hard disk drives is rather low due to the nature of shingled magnetic recording technology and other factors. However, the firm claims that it is possible to hide some of SMR’s drawbacks by installing large DRAM caches on hard drives. Moreover extreme capacity HDDs are not used as boot drives, so their performance issues will hardly be noticed.

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One of the world’s largest makers of hard drives is confident that it will be able to release commercial HDDs featuring HAMR technology in 2016 – 2017. Thanks to HAMR, hard drives will gain around 30 per cent capacity every year in the future. However, to use heat-assisted method, Seagate will need to advance HDD heads and media. Seagate will demonstrate working prototypes of HAMR HDDs sometimes next year, the company said.

By contrast, Seagate does not seem to consider sealed helium-filled HDDs. Such drives require completely different process technology to manufacture and thus are more expensive than traditional hard disk drives. Seagate does not believe that helium-filled hard drives will even become cost-effective enough for consumers (consumers do not require HDD with extreme amount of platters anyway), which is why it does not see many reasons to offer such drives even to enterprise customers.

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KitGuru Says: Seagate seems to be rather optimistic about the future of hard disk drives. The company has a solid roadmap that it is going to execute. Apparently, Seagate knows how to solve technological challenges with HAMR and other technologies, therefore, the skies are blue ahead of the company.

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