Western Digital could prepare to conquer the tape file market using HDD technology, as the company seeks to solve the archiving problem.
As Block & Archives reported when speaking with the company's executive vice president and general manager of the hard drive business, Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, companies in the storage industry are considering adding another layer of storage that will allow cooler data and data to coexist. archive.
Typically, companies have relied on tape storage to store large amounts of data in the most affordable way possible. However, a new type of hard disk with more disks could present an attractive alternative option to tape storage as it will allow data restoration more quickly.
Given that Gorakhpurwalla has clearly spoken to Block & Archives about Western Digital's archival data drive term, Western Digital and its service customers have probably already started discussing the idea.
Eleven Tray Hard Drives
In a hierarchical memory-to-band diagram, CPU and DRAM caches have the highest cost with the lowest latency, followed by storage class memory, SSDs, nearby hard drives, and then tape while they are running. low. Nonetheless, archival hard drives can be really useful for corporate data that needs to be saved but doesn't need to be read frequently, if they do.
Gorakhpurwalla explained to Block & Archives that one of the ways Western Digital and other storage industry players could create massive archival hard drives is to increase the number of platters that make up a drive, stating:
“Think of a hard drive in the traditional sense, you know, the 3 XNUMX/XNUMX-inch form factor with nine or maybe ten platters. in the future eleven trays and... the head load we have today. It's a... combination of technology and capability. Using ... this set of tools to then be able to offer a solution for different tiers of the data center ... is part of our roadmap at Western Digital.
By adding an auxiliary tray, Western Digital could achieve an increase of more than two Tb in disk capacity, which would assist in archiving large amounts of data. Although the company does not plan to launch eleven-platter hard drives anytime soon, the idea is part of its roadmap for the future.
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Via Block & Files