We talk to Rainer Kaese of Toshiba about the roadmap for conventional magnetic recording on hard disk drives, the roadmap to 32TB, and what it would take to get to 100TB or 200TB.
In part one of a two-part series, we look at key hard disk drive (HDD) specs, including mean time to failure (MTTF), annual failure rate (AFR) and unrecoverable error rate (UER), and how they relate to each other.
In part two of a two-part series, we look at sustained data rates in hard disk drive (HDD) specs, SATA versus SAS, drive security, and how HDD makers pack density into products by shingling.