Who thinks Seagate will even be in business in 5 Yrs? Directors and VPs completely disconnected from daily operations. Managers feed them fancy flow charts and PowerPoints. Ridiculous.
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Pat Ryan's project was shut down by Loose Cow after the BoD cut Watkins. Seagate was in trouble at the time, the stock price was at $3.00, and the cost of properly launching that technology was in the billions. No guts.
Does anyone from NRM or SHK remember that solid state spin torque investment (Pat Ryan's game, I think it was) at Normandale? They built a whole separate clean room, purchased top o the line tool set, hired 200 brainiacs, then shut it down in late 2008. WTF? If it would have worked, could that have kept STX alive another 5 years?? Were we well served by management on that decision?
Asteroid idea can't work any worse than its intended purpose in a drive: I say go for it.
I say build the HAMR drives anyway. Later when we have millions in stock that can't be sold, Seagate can approach S.H.I.E.L.D. for a lucrative Earth defense contract to build an Earth impacting asteroid destruct weapon. we can hook up all the lasers together and all the magnets and coils from these unsold drives. We can try to cause the killer asteroid to change course using the world's most powerful rare earth electromagnet while the asteroid is still out by Jupiter. If that isn't enough we can then also fire all the head lasers at once to blast the astreoid to dust. Defense contracts always pay big, already has a cool weapon name too. I'm buying stock now.
Queen bee dun layed off them worker bees out of a job was.
CCD = Charge Coupled Device, a device you might think would be used in connection with HAMR lasers, if you were a fool. If you are not a fool, then
CCD = Colony Collapse Disorder, where by the queen bees kill off the worker bees as the colony implodes, and the queen bees fly away with golden parachutes, big stock takes, and honey globs. Believe it. Or don't.
Hallu-ba-joo-la! I'm free! Free, at last!!!
HAMR seems to fit the definition of vaporware perfectly. Read it and you decide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
I better correct that to "vaporware" in case the spelling Nazi gets me.
Glad I'm not the only one who knows HAMR is total vaporwear.
Remember, there are HAMR designs with great performance but lousy lifetimes, and others with long lifetimes but lousy performance. Just put one of each in a drive and you are good to go. Duhhhhh! If it is good enough for a conference paper, it is good enough for mass pro.
You need to be careful with the word "working". It may operate at a high areal density for a few minutes before burning out due to the heat from the laser assist. Is that working? Or it may run for a few months at a low areal density because in those circumstances the laser doesn't burn out the head immediately. Of course at a low areal density you don't need HAMR. That is "working but ineffective
Doesn't TDK have a working laser assisted head?
HAMR is something they pretend can work because it provides the illusion that the company has a future. PC and laptop at the lower end will be SAD. High speed mission critical apps will be SSD. Only large slow data retention systems will use HDD. Can a HAMR based system match a tape drive for reliability and power consumption? I doubt it. HAMR is bait to find a fool who is willing to buy us.
Don't believe even if lasers can be attached and function for sustained period , it will prevent the decline of HDD all technology is normally superseded by advancements and flash storage is showing the greater advance in the last 2 years .....looks like the floods a few years bad gave the industry false hopes regarding demand for drives believe company of 45000 will be halved in next three years or even fold completely.
Someone forgot to shut a door for a planning session and I overheard this.
"You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have drives with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently, my cycloptic colleague informs me that that can't be done. Can you remind me what I pay you people for? Honestly, throw me a bone here. What do we have?"
And then something about the next drive being named Sea Bass or something along those lines.
Might be something, might not be we'll just have to wait and see.
Good luck and peace out
https://www.hbsslaw.com/cases/seagate
Wonder if this is legit?