- Seagate Mozaic 4+ platform increases hard drive capacity from 30TB to 44TB
- It is the world’s first and only platform based on HAMR.
- An anonymous hyperscaler is already using it at scale
Data storage giant Seagate has unveiled its next-generation Mozaic 4+ platform, featuring a range of increased capacities per hard drive.
Seagate boasts that Mozaic 4+ is the industry’s first and only heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR)-based storage platform that has been deployed at scale and has been rated by an unnamed “leading hyperscale cloud provider” in configurations up to 44TB.
And this appears to be just the beginning, as the company looks to increase from the current 4TB per drive to 10TB per drive, resulting in capacities of up to 100TB.
Speaking about the increased demand for data center and cloud activity globally, CEO Dave Mosley said: “Seagate’s HAMR-based Mozaic products deliver the scale, performance and efficiency customers need to unleash the full potential of their data.”
Although Seagate’s next-generation technology is currently being positioned as “critical” for data center infrastructure, training data, and historical archives, it is only a while before this type of high-capacity storage becomes more democratized for small-scale consumption and commercial use.
“Whether for large-scale model training or sophisticated tuning, companies building and using these AI models have found that innovations in high-capacity hard drives like HAMR have become critical to the quality and speed of their results,” added TECHnalysis Research President Bob O’Donnell.
As for the updated platform, Seagate claims an improvement of around 47% in infrastructure efficiency in a 1 exabyte deployment compared to standard 30TB drives, resulting in a reduction of around 100 square feet in data center footprint. It also means customers can unlock up to 0.8 million kWh in annual energy savings in this example.
The unnamed hyperscaler is already receiving “volume” of Mozaic 4+ units and Seagate plans to scale production for greater availability going forward.
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