HAMR got delayed .....

[qwertywarrior]

i guess HAMR is tricky to implement .helium and SMR drives for now

 

 

We had hoped to see Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording sometime in 2017 but that goal has proved to be optimistic and 2018 is now the current expectation for its arrival.  This technology will allow storage densities higher than 1.5 Tb/in² but is not quite ready for primetime at the moment.

 

"Unfortunately the hard disk drive industry is not ready to go live with Heat-assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR). The technology is yet not reliable enough for mass production. Over the years, producers of hard drives, platters and recording heads have revealed various possible timeframes for commercial availability of drives with HAMR technology. Their predictions were not accurate."

 

 

http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/HAMR-strike-delayed-until-2018

[Chasem121]

SSD's will continue to get closer to HDD's price point, and it seems even faster with this delay in HDD tech

[AlwaysFSX]

They should start setting realistic time tables and then we can all be pleasantly surprised by them either being on time or early.

[TrigrH]

[Prysin]

good thing i plan to move all my Steam folders over to SSDs...

atleast then, the only thing i need HDDs for, HAMR or not, is my enormous anime collection.

[AresKrieger]

Manipulating magnets with heat will indeed be difficult (I actually scoffed at the idea when it was announced). The acceptable range of heat for this technology has a very limited temperature range to function properly, so there will likely be a lot of setbacks before a viable product is made, and even then these drive will likely have more limited lifespans.

[Doobeedoo]

Yeah would be bad if it's not reliable and got released. Either way I'll try to stick with SSDs storage mainly and probably large HDD archive.