Seagate released its third-quarter report for fiscal year 2018 yesterday. Its revenue of 2.8 billion U.S. dollars increased by 5% year-on-year, profit of 381 million U.S. dollars soared 96%, and the difficult time for layoffs and reorganizations has basically passed.
At the same time, from the product data, The average capacity of hard disk drives for shipment machinery has been increased to 2.4 TB, which is a 1/3 increase over the same period of last year, and the enterprise level is 4.8 TB. Obviously, the market demand for large-capacity hard drives is very high, and in recent years, the capacity of mechanical hard drives has been rather difficult to upgrade, which is far less dazzling than SSDs.
Of course, Whether Western Digital or Seagate are working hard to develop new storage technologies, the currently shipping 14TB and the upcoming 16TB, 18TB are all traditional vertical recording technologies. Next, the new HAMR heat-assisted magnetic recording technology will be introduced. It is expected to bring 100TB of total capacity by 2030.
Seagate said that it will sample the HAMR hard drive in 2018 and mass production in 2019. The initial capacity is 20TB, and the latest statement is even more exciting:
Seagate said that The HAMR technology is progressing smoothly. The capacity of the next-generation large-capacity near-line hard disk can reach 24TB. It is expected to be listed in volume in 2019.
Of course, Seagate has multiple drive technology (Multi-Actuator). The hard disk memory uses multiple robots to read and write simultaneously, which greatly improves performance. The read/write speed can reach 480MB/s, which is basically similar to that of SATA SSD.
