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Seagate brags of 1m SMR drives - where are they? (theregister.co.uk)
1 point by bigiain on Sept 11, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


"Seagate brags of 1m SMR drives - where are they?

Disks with tiny tracks shipping, 5TB boxes by 2014, we're told.

Seagate has said it's shipped a million shingled disk drives to date."

Hmmm, I wonder who might have the budget to purchase Seagate's entire output of latest-tech super-high-capacity drives, and has a use case where tremendously slow over-writing of data wouldn't be a problem? Almost as though these are targeted directly at organisations that archive monumental amounts of data and never delete any of it…




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