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at the link in the video description so we're here in seagate and we don't

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actually cover hard drives every time because let's face it

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they're really really boring every year it's like okay we've got some

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more capacity and like it might go a bit faster

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also we've got green on our stickers now

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but this is different so seagate's been working on a technology called heat

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assisted magnetic recording or hammer since

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1999 and the first time they built a

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drive using this technology it lasted for a grand total of one sector worth of

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rights and then it was destroyed so to call it

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a concept at that stage is probably being

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generous with that said they've been hard at work on it for the last 20 years

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and they are finally at the point where they are ready to announce that hammer

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drives will be shipping to customers this year so how does it work then

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you can actually see a live feed of a hammerhead

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totally intentional i'm sure so that's the drive head and it's hammer

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technology writing data to the platter that is

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running live next to me right here and every time it moves around you're going

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to see a flash that's the head heating up the platter

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to approximately 450 degrees celsius completely wiping

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out any data that was already there and rewriting it this allows them to get

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better aerial density to the point where we should see if they stay on target

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terabyte drives by the year 2020. so

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this drive right here combines their hammer technology with their sealed

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helium drive technology which gives us the power consumption savings that you'd

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expect from a modern drive as well now reliability remember that story at the

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beginning how long are these things going to last so they have had tests

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running in their lab for the last 18 months where they have individual heads

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that have seen over 8 000 hours of just constant rights going

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through them to put that in perspective that's a petabyte and a half of data

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that's been written through a single head about equivalent to the entire netflix library that is if the internet

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is to be believed so is it going to be reliable

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well i mean i think that guy's job depends on

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it so reliable

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let's go with yeah for his sake but hammer doesn't solve

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all of the hard drive industries problems something that uh

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i've noticed and seagate has had other customers point out to them is that as

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these drive capacities get higher and higher and higher without a performance

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improvement to match we're getting to the point where it's kind of like what

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happened with sd cards before they got past you know 20 to 30 megabytes a

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second of write speeds where you'd like get a new sd card or a thumb drive and

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you'd be like yeah so this is you know a terabyte or whatever but it would take

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me literally weeks to fill it with data like it's

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it's not really useful anymore so to address that

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there's mach 2 and oh sorry this is actually running oh it's

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like warm and what mach 2 is

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is that's really cool so they've got a glass top on this drive so we can see

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exactly what's happening but in effect in a multi-platter drive so most of the

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top ones here are glass so you can see the two actuator arms moving

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independently of each other so it uses a single sas interface which takes

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advantage of sas's ability to have two sort of virtual ports available through

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a single cable connected to a single connector so the drive's firmware and

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processor take the incoming stream of data and split it between the two

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separate heads this effectively doubles the iops performance of this

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drive compared to a normal drive which would run off of a single actuator ARM

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which brings us finally to the most controversial item here in the seagate

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booth i've had everything from eye rolls to speaking directly to the person whose

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pet project this is but this is the uh

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you know what i forget the name so i'm gonna call it the hard drive zamboni and

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what it effectively is is a like fiberglass shell with like these uh

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tread style uh you know trailer mover

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type you know treads on the front that contains a 4u

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server rack so the idea is that amazon

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has a product called uh what have they got they got snowball which is a little

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one they've got snowmobile which i think like a semi-trailer where the idea is

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they've got these high-speed interfaces where you pull these things up to your

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data center offload everything and like literally drive it somewhere because

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it's faster than trying to send it over the internet so this is supposed to be

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like kind of like the middle stage where you like load a bunch of data onto it and

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then you like drive it over somewhere and it could be like battery powered and then you could

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offload it and that might be faster than using a network so

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i'm gonna let you guys decide the controversy for me is this something the

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world needs more of or something the world needs less of let me know in the

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comments below speaking of things to let me know in the comments below let me know

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says everything you need to know about it it's got a great applicator so you can put it on perfectly every time and

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the impact resistance of this thing is unreal like i was using a phone to

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hammer a nail into a piece of wood peeling off the prism and the screen is

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still pristine you gotta see it to believe it which is why we put footage

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of it doing its thing in front of your face right now so your eyeballs can

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capture that so check them out at the link in the video description

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so thanks for watching guys don't miss any of our ces 2019 content by making

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absolutely nothing we're done now this one might get

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released like earlier because the editors i don't know how they do the

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things they do so there might actually be more coming

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but i'm done peace and out i'm on a plane in like

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four hours hell yeah

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i mean i love ces sorry that's what i meant to say