Seagate aims to produce 100TB hard drive by 2030
Company Seagate Plans to Bring 100TB Hard Drive to Market by 2030, as BS Teh, the chief commercial officer, told CNBC. According to him, demand from the AI and high-performance computing (HPC) markets is creating an urgent need for a sharp increase in storage capacity.
“This is a key factor that will enable the industry to provide the storage capacity that the market requires,” Teh said. He stressed that No other technology can yet offer such a data storage density, which could meet the growing needs of data centers.
Today, the most capacious HDD in the Seagate line is Exos Mozaic 3+ 36TBtechnology based HAMR (Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording). Its design uses glass plates of 6 TB each, with a maximum of 10 pieces. Theoretically, this gives a ceiling of 60 TB, but the current corporate roadmap does not foresee such models coming out anytime soon. In January, Seagate announced that the next platform Mozaic 4+ to Deliver 40+ TB in 2026, Mozaic 5+ to reach 50TB by 2028 or later.
This is behind the 2017 plan, where the target of 50 TB was already set for 2026. Therefore Possibility of 100 TB production by 2030 raises skepticism, especially if there is no radically new approach after HAMR.
However, the company says it is designing with energy efficiency in mind. According to Teh, future drives will provide lower power consumption per terabyte, as well as smaller dimensions and load on the infrastructure of data centers. Seagate is also investing in use of renewable energy sources for production.
Despite previous delays, Seagate Remains Leader in HDD Volumes, and if the company's ambitions match technological progress, 100 TB could become a reality - but for now it's just a goal.
