2024 Predictions of Seagate

Data-hungry AI to compel data centres, gains in HAMR, HDDs to continue to play pivotal role in cloud storage

This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on December 19, 2023 at 2:01 pm

As an industry expert with over 28 years of experience, Seagate Technology’s chief commercial officer B.S. Teh, predicts that, in 2024:

• Data-hungry AI will compel data centres and winning enterprises toward high-density hard drive storage to futureproof their data value by saving raw data sets as well as insights produced by AI and LLM processing.
• Significant gains in HAMR technology will empower data centres to refresh their fleets of lower-capacity drives with higher-capacity alternatives.
• HDDs will continue to play a pivotal role in cloud data storage, as the value gap between HDDs and flash storage continues to hold strong in the hard disk’s favour.