Abandoning the 60TB solid-state drive, Seagate said it is betting on the main business of mechanical hard drives

According to news from this site on February 5, Seagate recently disclosed to foreign media TechRadar the reasons for its cancellation of the 60TB solid-state drive project. An official spokesperson said that Seagate needs to focus more on increasing the single-disk capacity of its main mechanical hard drive, so it abandoned this product. This site has reported that Seagate exhibited a solid-state drive with a capacity of up to 60TB at the Flash Memory Summit in 2016. It is equipped with 3D flash memory from Micron, uses a 3.5-inch disk body that is rare for solid-state drives, adopts dual-port SAS-3 specifications, and can achieve sequential read and write speeds of up to 1500MB/s and random read speeds of up to 150K IOPS. And this piece of equipment that seemed like a giant back then only required a maximum active power consumption of

15W, which is only 0.25W

per TB. However, the project was eventually canceled and the product was not officially launched.

▲ Picture source Seagate official press release

Seagate spokesperson said:

“Due to time and condition constraints, All companies have to make decisions about their priorities. During the recent recession, for example, we saw a lot of roadmap realignment. For us, it made sense to reevaluate our priorities because then The environment is very dynamic, including some industry consolidation that has forced us to completely re-evaluate. As a result,

we have focused on areas where we have the greatest strength

. We have been a leader in HDD storage technology. Considering SSD Storage is still more expensive than HDDs, with a price-per-terabyte ratio of about 5:1, and our decision to focus on tape density innovation for HDDs makes good business sense for us."

Although Seagate has given up on 60TB solid-state drives, it is still working hard to move towards mechanical hard drives with the same capacity. Seagate Chief Commercial Officer BS The previously confirmed to TechRadar that after the 5TB capacity of a single platter is achieved in 2027-2028, Seagate will launch higher-capacity mechanical hard drive platters.

TechRadar estimates that we will see the arrival of 60TB (10 disks per disk, 6TB per disk) mechanical hard drives around 2030

.

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