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HGST's 10TB drive uses custom software to access shingled platters
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9th June 2015, 09:21
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| [M] Reviewer  Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania
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 |  HGST's 10TB drive uses custom software to access shingled platters HGST first revealed its 10TB cold storage drive back in September. The 3.5" mechanical unit combines helium-filled internals with Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) to hit a new capacity milestone, and it's finally ready for prime time. Customers will start getting production drives in a couple of weeks. The Ultrastar Archive Ha10 won't be available through conventional channels, so don't expect it to hit online retailers. HGST's host-managed SMR implementation requires substantial customization on the software side. SMR crams more data onto the platters by overlapping the individual tracks like rows of shingles on a roof. This layering is typically managed by the drive, without host-level intervention. That approach ... http://techreport.com/news/28426/hgs...ngled-platters |
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