Seagate Company recently unveiled drives volume 8 TB, consisting of six platters. Meanwhile, HGST already offers selected customers drives volume of 10 TB, also uses a tiled magnetic recording, but is placed in the body of seven plates due to filling it with helium.
Seagate is determined to present hard disks, magnetic plates 10 TB volume until the end of this year. This volume will get a set of six platters, but without modifying the gas environment. The first models of Seagate hard drives such volume will focus on the use of the corporate sector, customer solutions of similar capacity will be presented later.
At the conference, Citigroup, Seagate representatives have also questioned the predictions of some market players, according to which by 2020 the cost of storing one unit of information in SSDs will fall to a level comparable to hard disks. Now the SSD specific terms, cost 20 times more expensive. Of course, the cost of storing the information on the solid state drive will be reduced, but that of the hard disks, magnetic plates will decline at faster pace.