As demand for storage technology grows the need for greater efficiency and more advanced capabilities continues to evolve. ![]() Over the years the amount of information stored has grown from megabytes all the way to geopbytes, confirming the need to successfully store and access huge amounts of data. ![]() Seagate is the global leader in data storage solutions, developing amazing products that enable people and businesses around the world to create, share and preserve their most critical memories and business data. Well unlike the 14TB line by Seagate this time over we managed to get all three models and we'll be starting our tests with the EXOS X16 16TB. Well it may have taken slightly longer for Seagate to release their HAMR drives to the public but we still have their brand new 16TB models of the EXOS X16, IronWolf Pro and IronWolf lines announced in early June. ![]() In early 2017 Seagate also announced that early drives featuring that technology made their way to several of their key partners so we were quite anxious to see what they’ve been working on over the past decade or so. Almost two years ago and while we were testing some of the very first 12TB 3.5" hard disk drives to hit the market by Seagate we "predicted" that 20TB models would be possible by 2020 largely thanks to the upcoming heat assisted magnetic recording technology (or HAMR for short - Western Digital on the other hand has invested heavily in their very own MAMR technology - microwave assisted magnetic recording) which basically increases storage density by quite a bit compared to shingled magnetic recording (SMR) and two-dimensional magnetic recording (TDMR).
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