HAMR time: Seagate unleashes 30 TB disks to feed the AI beast

Seagate has released two 30 TB hard drives based on its HAMR technology, pitching them as more energy efficient cheaper options for datacenter operators dealing with AI workloads. The hard drive maker today confirmed global channel availability of Exos M 30 TB and IronWolf Pro 30 TB units. The devices take Seagate to within …

[Flocke Kroes]

Re: available now through [Seagate's] online store

Anyone got the URL for this online store? Seagate's site has a "where to buy" button that does not include Seagate. Some of the sites on the "where to buy" list are no use to me because they sell racks full of disks. The others I will not trade with because they cannot package a disk to get through the post*. 5 of the last disks I bought arrived thoroughly broken and I would love to try a new distributor because I would like to trade with someone at least vaguely competent and I am running low on space.

* To be fair one of them improvised reasonable packaging because I asked when placing the order. One of the two disks supplied can retrieve data stored on it - after a random delay of several seconds about once per GB.

[An_Old_Dog]

Re: available now through [Seagate's] online store

Oooh. Better check the S.M.A.R.T. status of your drive with the random delays. It may be heading to RMA-land, and it's better to know now versus having a catestrophic failure after it's stuffed full of data.

[Flocke Kroes]

Re: Better check the S.M.A.R.T. status

Mostly a waste of time. I used to check new disks with SMART. I have only had one fail - because the drive would not communicate at all. The test that matters is fill with data and try to read it back. SMART does show a massively higher rate of corrected read errors than my older disks. I would replace it if I thought there were a chance that the replacement would be better. Instead of SMART I check md5sums against a list. Useless if your data changes but I use spinning disks for large files that do not change.

[Andrew Scott]

Re: available now through [Seagate's] online store

https://www.seagate.com/products/shop/?fq-capacity=30000_to_9999999

[Anonymous Coward]

is it big enough for a full install of Vista?

[Sandtitz]

Vista... from 20 years ago? Bit of an old joke, I wouldn't post it with my handle either.

Ubuntu requires more space than Vista did. I'm sure none of it is bloat though.

[David 132]

Well if we're on the theme of old Vista jokes... this Mac advert is still funny!

[FirstTangoInParis]

Wow

30 TB for 550 quid? I’m paying £70 for 2 GB iron wolf nas disks. Bargain (if I could justify 30 TB for the home file server)!

[David 132]

Re: Wow

> I’m paying £70 for 2 GB iron wolf nas disks

You, uh, might want to check the small print on your receipt for those disks :)

[Anonymous Coward]

Synology

Unlikely to be certified by Synology for their ‘25’ units as appear only to have time for certifying their own rebadged drives…..