After each quarterly earnings release Seagate will release a roadmap looking forward to the future development of mechanical hard drives commonly known as ldquo; Pancake & rdquo;.

This time, Seagate talked about HAMR thermal-assisted magnetic recording hard drives, PMR traditional magnetic recording hard drives, and SMR stacked hard drives.

Seagate HAMR hard drive after more than 10 years of training, finally out of the mountain, the first product capacity 32TB, integrated with 10 3.2TB capacity discs.

Next, Seagate will successively launch 36TB, 40TB and 50TB HAMR hard drives, all of which are loaded with 10 discs, and the single disc capacity will be increased to 32.6TB, 4TB and 5TB in turn.

Among themThe disc with 5TB capacity has been initially completed in Seagate Lab.But it is hard to say when it will be released, and it is estimated that it will take at least three years.

But it is hard to say when it will be released, and it is estimated that it will take at least three years.

The SMR hard drive, like a street mouse, will also introduce 28TB capacity.But the time is uncertain.

The roadmap announced earlier