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Seagate.com
Company blog · blog.seagate.comhardwaredata
Seagate.com is the company blog at blog.seagate.com, writing about hardware and data. Since 2017, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Seagate's engineering blog for technical detail on hard drive technology such as HAMR, multi-actuator drives, storage shipment volumes and PCIe lanes, usually as a source for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Explore the Seagate Blog for expert insights on data storage, AI, edge computing, security, and cloud with trends, tips, and solutions shaping the future of data.
Most-linked posts?
- /craftsman-ship/multi-actuator-technology-a-new-performance-breakthrough/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-30
What Hacker News says?
Does anyone know what's going on with those U.2 NVMe hard disk drives? (see https://blog.seagate.com/enterprises/seagate-unveils-worlds-... ) I'm asking coz the OP mentioned the need for a PCIe-to-SATA bridge chip to have more than a couple of SATA ports. I'd assume that if HDD were also NVMe devices, it will be simpler to just wire each PCIe lane to a drive, without requiring any bridges. A PCIe 2.0 x1 lane is 500M…
Comment linking /enterprises/seagate-unveils-worlds-first-native-nvme-hdd-demo-at-ocp/
on “I made a new backplane for my consumer NAS”Submitted Seagate Achieves 16TB Capacity on Internal HAMR Test Units as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> I don't fully understand. So 1 SSD need 1 lane. M.2 SSDs supports up to PCIe 4x, though there are also PCIe card formats which support 8x and 16x: http://blog.seagate.com/intelligent/seagate-demonstrates-fas... > How many lanes need something like NVisia 1080Ti? 16 per (technically they need 4 per — that's what TB3 gives — or possibly less, but they'll use 16 if they can) > If I want to build something like 1 CPU/…
Comment linking /intelligent/seagate-demonstrates-fastest-ever-ssd-flash-drive/
on “All AMD ThreadRipper CPU's will have 64 PCIe Lanes”Submitted Multi Actuator arms double HDD IOPS speed (bonus gif) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMulti-actuator drives are also coming in the next few years: https://blog.seagate.com/craftsman-ship/multi-actuator-techn... That will close the performance gap a bit too I suspect. I have to wonder about power consumption though.
Comment linking /craftsman-ship/multi-actuator-technology-a-new-performance-breakthrough/
on “15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620”Submitted Multi Actuator Technology: A New Performance Breakthrough as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> But I haven't really seen prices going up. [...] And my coworker has not been getting the same news stories about hard drive prices. because 1EB is a minuscule amount of the hard drive capacity, compared to the total amount produced per year. According to seagate's blogpost[1], they ship at least 500 EB per year. If you add in capacity from WD/toshiba, it's probably closer to 1000EB if not more. That would make ch…
Comment linking /enterprises/seagate-has-shipped-three-zettabytes-of-data-storage/
on “Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space”Submitted Multi Actuator Technology: A New Performance Breakthrough – Seagate as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.seagate.com/craftsman-ship/multi-actuator-techn... Looks like interesting technology but I don't see how that helps here.
Comment linking /craftsman-ship/multi-actuator-technology-a-new-performance-breakthrough/
on “Western Digital HDD boss mentions archive disk drive idea”Incredibly tiny areas are being heated for tiny lengths of time, so it has negligible effect. https://blog.seagate.com/craftsman-ship/hamr-next-leap-forwa... > Power, heat, and the reliability of related systems is equally nominal. HAMR heads integrated in customer systems consume under 200mW power while writing — a tiny percentage of the total 8W power a drive uses during random write, and easily maintaining a tota…
Comment linking /craftsman-ship/hamr-next-leap-forward-now/
on “Big Leap for Hard Drive Capacities: 32 TB HAMR Drives Due Soon, 40TB on Horizon”
