Anyone working in HAMR can tell what’s going on in HAMR world. Have been hearing from management every year that next year it will be in the market with 20/40 TB drives.
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The "world first" 16 TB HAMR drive is nothing but the current variation of the old/stale PR stunt that seagate has been pushing for so many years now to buy itself the proverbial "couple of extra years" to deliver a viable (R/W performance + RELIABILITY!!!) product class HAMR drive. BTW, was the brain/driving force behind HAMR, i.e. STX's CTO, promoted in connection with the delivery of the "world first" 16 TB HAMR drive?...Wait, all indications are that he was fired...uhmm...curious!?
When will HAMR be ready for retail though?
16 tb hamr drives are working 20tb soon to follow so there you go all the doubters
Funny how much misinformation some of you are providing on the doom and gloom of HAMR. Some of us are actually busy making it work. Have we had setbacks? For sure but what new tech hasn’t?
I’ll leave you with this question. Since some of you seem more wise than a lot of smart folks, what would you say should be focused on rather HAMR? What’s your future for Seagate?
Good gawd, you guys need to go enjoy your holiday and stop posting while drunk.
HAMR not ready for prime time - again!!??...Mr Ponytail finally terminated? (if true, why did it take so long?)...Shocking!! (LOL)...just when I was getting ready for the next BS HAMR-related announcement from STX; something along the lines of "...HAMR, the crown jewel of Seagate innovation, has now been proven to be a commercially viable technology that will enable HDD areal densities, performance and reliability levels thought to be unattainable until recently. However, after careful consideration, the Seagate leadership team has decided that in order to maximize the impact of HAMR technology, it is best to postpone its commercialization until 2021-2022, when it will be deployed (3-4 years ahead of schedule!) along with our BPM technology in 'Heated Dot Magnetic Recording' HDDs The leadership team is confident that this strategy will handsomely reward consumers and shareholders..." (LOL) Good luck seagaters
Ever since DM took over as CEO the culture in Seagate has been one of “just do what Dave wants”. The Executive Leadership team no longer cares about the issues and challenges that the lower ranks are facing. They care only about making the financial looks good to the shareholders and that’s about it. They don’t really care about employees. Employees are just some numbers on the balance sheet at the end of the day. Everyone just have to be prepared for layoffs at some point.
I don't know how many times I had to play Captain Obvious about how HAMR isn't even close to feasible over the years to no avail for the HAMR faithful. Instead of asking critical questions and challenging the whole thing, every manager below ponytail level seemed content to give scripted unquestioning support and accept faith in HAMR. I could not get basic simple math, logic, and finance concepts through to anyone above me. Nope. "HAMR is the future" and you have to learn to just accept it was the response. What is wrong with STX culture that the obvious feasibility issues were ignored and never dare questioned? That's the REAL problem, not HAMR.
I swear I just heard a laugh track play in my head when I read the original posting.
The status is not good .Today we where informed that the COO and the chief technical officer in charge of HAMR (guy with the pony tail) has been given his marching orders and has been sacked from the company with immediate effect.The reason given is that HAMR drives have pretty much all failed after 75 hours in the test beds.HAMR also currently cannot be manufactured in scale because of the maintaince of power for the laser issues ,the cost of manufacture per Tb is 5X process of record which customers will not accept and the route lengths for manufacture from recording head to drive will be in excess of 11 months.Maintaing a purposeful supply chain renders it a non started at this time .The project has been pushed out at least 12 months.To help elevate some of these issues R&D Department will amalgamate with Manufacturing Departments at all sites globally to facilitate better time to market and allow amalgamation and stream lining and prevent replication of management structures across of these groups in order to be more cost effective .This will result in job reductions at each site in the management ranks from Senior Directors through to junior management level across all factory areas.Lists of names are currently being drawn up and will be communicated to each site week commencing 14th January.