What happened to our HAMR drives? Have we started mass production?
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Did the technology slip ... again. Asking for a friend.
Fire Ravi...for firing hundreds and for the strategy. Doesn’t know HDDs, is a flash guy.
HAMR breakeven will be 2027 at least but Seagate's own investor day presentation shows HDD revenue for the industry will be lower than today and split by 3 companies competing in HDD data center which means Seagate's revenue will be lower than today.
Seagate's forecasts are always overly optimistic so will HAMR ever breakeven?
It is more than 10 years late. Current production is small due to lack of confidence in the product and ships at a $100 loss per drive at least. Even magic strategist Ravi cannot fix the cost issue until the year 2022.
10 years late?
Put the brilliant “CIO / product strategist” Ravi on the problem. I’m sure he can fix it.
It's only 10 years late...
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/55926-seagate-nextgen-hamr-storage-due-in-2010
It was out in 2018:
https://blog.seagate.com/craftsman-ship/hamr-next-leap-forward-now/
Still a demo product after 2 billion spent. It’s almost ready every year. Rinse and repeat. Better figure out 10 disk JIK.