HAMR is just a smokescreen right now despite what Heavy D and Beardy J are saying. So many issues that it won’t go mass production for atleast 3 years. Lyve being shutdown and no real plans for a systems business. A monkey can sell the older hard drives as is.
What’s going on ?
Drive failures have been fixed with ADR. Problem solved. We just need to convince the customers now.
Heavy D and Beardy J. Too funny.
That last post was spot on.
That was indeed the HR plan as communicated in the all employee meeting - get ready as we’re all packed closer together in the empty-ish buildings - so we can “collaborate!!” - ie, so the totally freed-up and now bored maintenance staff can learn engineering tasks by overhearing conversations the next cube over - then we can lay off the engineers next quarter. Solid. So solid.
Lol - so many levels of wrong in everything said by everyone hosting that meeting - but maybe I’m expecting too much from individuals taking home 15M / yr in pay??
HR, Legal, and Finance are fully staffed. With a little cross-training, they can handle any excursions.
We are now so short staffed the chances of having a major process excursion in one our large Asian factories is a guarantee at this point. Normally we would send a small team of engineers and technicians to help the factories where and when needed, that will no longer be possible. At least we don’t have any new untested products that will require extra engineering effort. No worries we have plenty of VP’s, Directors, and Managers who will find some poor sap to blame for the coming HAMR failures. High failure rates with the coming new HAMR drives will be a mortal wound with our customers.
HR is working with local vendors to provide lots of bananas in the FY24 bonus pool.
Look at what they do, not what they say. It’s pretty clear the transformation into a small commodity HDD only business is planned and in motion. It will be accelerated dramatically if customers reject the HAMR product for unacceptable reliability.. I think it’s highly likely they will and just order PMR HDD.
Not much going on at all unless you’re into HAMR heads and media - or maybe incremental TPI extension using tools developed long ago by people no longer here. The vast majority of HAMR infrastructure was done years ago. I agree - a couple 1000 monkeys doing boring work - best case. HAMR is at best an exit strategy for the entire industry - worst case the exit plan is to ride PMR to the last station. Same-same to my job.
Revenue milking mates! That is all. Suck it dry baby. Execs at their best that is what is going on!