Showa Denko to Begin Shipment of MAMR-Based HD Media This Year
For Toshiba, involved in technology as well as Western Digital
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on February 21, 2019 at 2:27 pmShowa Denko K.K. will begin shipment of newly developed 3.5-inch HD media this year based on the Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAMR) technology for next-generation HDDs.
This new product has been adopted by Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation for use in its MAMR-technology-based 18TB nearline HDD, which represents the largest storage capacity.
Toshiba will begin sample shipment this year.
SDK’s new HD media has storage capacity of 2TB per disk, and uses aluminum substrate. In terms of Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR), this product represents the 10th generation media.
Due to the expansion of cloud service, video content, and image-sharing website, data centers need HDDs with larger storage capacity. As the largest independent HD media supplier, SDK aims to quickly launch media based on innovative technologies, including MAMR and Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR).
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That's the first time we learned that Toshiba is going enter into MAMR technology - and also into HAMR - for HDDs following Western Digital, both companies being in competition with Seagate HAMR for next high-capacity 3.5-inch disk drives.
SDKs 3.5-inch media are now used in 16TB HDD adopted into Toshiba HDD for near-line storage, the MG08, with CMR at 1.8TB/platter, using its ninth-generation PMR technology.
Disk and substrate media manufacturers in the world are Fuji Electric, Hoya, TK (Tokyo Kohan) Works, Seagate, Showa and Western Digital.
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