Several major storage units manufacturers worldwide announced that they had already started offering the first generations of new hard disk drives manufactured with the new Hummer technology, which entered into commercial production, after 10 years of innovating, developing and improving this technology, allowing Mass storage production.

This month saw the arrival of the 18 TB units to the markets, while the 20 and 24 TB units are scheduled to be launched during the second half of the year or at the end of it, at a time when the road is open to reach a capacity of 80 TB during the next few years.

The announcement was made by the major storage units manufacturers, led by "Seagate", "Western Digital", "Toshiba" and "Hitachi", and other companies. And published the «Anandtech» specialized in storage solutions, a series of reports on the arrival of «Hummer» technology into commercial production, and the implications of this matter on the storage market now and in the future.

Experience and research

Reports indicated that for the past 10 years, Hummer has been a technology under trial and research, and research in this field has been led by Showa Dinko, the largest independent manufacturer of magnetic turntable containers and drives in the world, selling media to all producers of hard storage units, in addition to some Other companies were led by Seagate and Western Digital, which also produce containers and disk drives for themselves, but in the last quarter of last year, Hummer became a technology operating on commercial production lines already.

It showed that "Hummer" came at a time when the number of solid storage units is shrinking, especially in the category of laptops, but it continues to flourish in terms of the total capacity shipped, as well as the revenue generated behind it.

Reports added that sales are currently concentrated in the office and server computers market for institutions, companies and data centers, as well as a significant number of individuals who accept to use them as giant external storage units, which absorb all their data and backup copies, to provide an opportunity to accelerate their desktop computers and rid them of carrying large data contained in files Insatiable video for storage.

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It was reported that during February 2019, the company «Seagate» announced that it was able to reach the technology of “Hummer” into the field of commercial use and production, and had overcome all challenges that were impeding its use, confirming that large-scale tests took place in 2017 and 2018, proved that it reached the stage of commercial use And, Seagate determined in 2020 to launch the first units produced with this technology.

According to reports, Seagate announced last week that it was formally preparing to launch storage units manufactured with the “revolutionary Hummer” technology, according to its description, which would enable it to offer units ranging between 18, 20 and 24 terabytes, or even higher capacities next year, confirming that it had already ended Successful tests of the technology to be used in 23 TB volumes.

Seagate CEO Dave Mosley said in a statement from the company that Seagate is preparing to launch 18 TB units in the market during the first half of this year, then units with a capacity of 20 TB late in the year, indicating that the company is on The correct way to expand the use of "Hummer".

"Hummer"

The term "Hummer" is defined as an abbreviation of a method for producing volumes called "heat-backed magnetic recording", which is a modern technique in the work of volumes, represented in the use of high temperature to cause a temporary change in the magnetic medium during storage, to accommodate a greater amount of data, and that of By heating the disc material to a high degree for a temporary period while writing and storing data on it, which makes it more receptive to magnetic effects, and thus allows writing and recording in much smaller areas, and much higher levels than usual when storing without supporting additional heat.

This method began to be thought on theoretical level 10 years ago, and it was seen as very difficult, and useless, because the process of temporary heating at high temperatures must be carried out with great discipline and meticulous accuracy.