At the Taipei Computer Show, the Seagate booth did not announce new products. The main highlights of the official show were three. First, 20TB+ HDD with HDR heat-assisted magnetic recording technology will be introduced in 2019, and secondly, high-speed machinery with MACH.2 dual-driver technology. Disk (450MB/s), the third is the enterprise-class Exos Galaxy series 14TB hard drive.
Currently in the domestic market, the largest capacity hard drive that can be easily purchased is 12TB, such as Seagate's Barracuda Pro/IronWolf Pro, Western Digital's gold plate, etc., at a minimum of 3,999 yuan.
During the show, Seagate staff revealed that 14TB of Exos will start mass shipments in the second half of 2018. The primary customer is the data center.
Of course, Seagate emphasized that Consumer (probably Coolfish Pro and Cool Wolf) Distribution will start before the end of 14TB , Ordinary users with large hard disk demand can also buy it at that time..
In terms of specifications, Exos uses 8-disc cartridge, PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording) disc, magnetic head is TDMR, single disc capacity 1.75TB. To achieve 2TB per disc, PMR/SMR hopes to be small, the evolution route of Western Digital is MAMR (Microwave-assisted magnetic recording), Seagate is HAMR (Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording).
