Cloud storage and smart hard drives

The interconnection of everything has led to the growth of data explosion. According to research by the authorities, the global data will double every two years. 1.8 Z data have been available around the world in 2011, and to date, at this rate, at least 3.6Z by the end of 2013. According to IDC's forecasts, by the year 2020, the world will have 40 Z data, equivalent to 5 times times this year. This requires 40 billion 1T hard disks to load 2020 years of data. That doesn't mean everyone needs to buy more hard drives. IDC, after research, found another trend, by 2020, 56% of the data will be transferred from personal storage devices to the cloud. In the big Data age, in addition to the big data of the individual, as well as the big data of the enterprise, the big data of the government, the big data of the country, the big data of the whole world, these are the sources of data, which relate to all aspects of people's livelihood.

The larger the data the more storage media you need, the more hard drives you need. of the data center costs, 57% of the costs are servers and storage devices, and more than 50% of the cost is made up of hard disks. Data center costs, 70% of which are spent on infrastructure, 50% on day-to-day operations, and 20% of the hard drives returned to Seagate are not damaged. We will have a huge benefit in improving any of these three items. The data center hosts a wide variety of businesses, and it's clear that it's impractical and unscientific for all businesses to use one hard drive.

Hard disk can be online repair, data security how to ensure that the hard drive offline after how to quickly process the data are users to consider the problem. Seagate can be customized according to different application scenarios to provide users with the best storage product portfolio. For the high computational performance needs of the solid-state disk, for ordinary data, hotter data, can provide 10,000 rpm or 15,000 RPM of the SaaS disk. For more and more cloud business, Seagate also specializes in providing a cloud disk, than the 7200-turn enterprise cloud disk lower, there is better power consumption and cost benefits. For the archive type of data requirements, there are super large capacity and ultra-low power disk, such as 5900 RPM will be so large capacity of 6TB this year.

Now we are in an information age, the information of large data carrier is hard disk, hard disk has become one of the core of cloud computing. The hard drive is not just a simple passive device, it's a smart device. Seagate can load tune it, diagnose and process it on-line fault, and help users reduce the overall application cost.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)