Some of the first drives with glass platters were the 2003-era IBM Deathstar GXP's (first gen 75GXP, next gen 60GXP) and we all know how that turned out...the issues have since obviously been ironed out. The problem really came down to the heads not being engineered for glass platters.
That's odd. I've seen lots of 2.5 inch hard drives with glass platters, but I've had to destroy lots and lots of 3.5 inch drives over the years and none of them that have been through the crusher shatter. They're all nice bendy aluminum and usually no more than about 3 years old (if they haven't had a premature failure anyhow). You can always tell the glass and ceramic ones because they leave a shattered mess inside the drive and some of it finds its way out after crushing to leave a mess to sweep up from the inside of the machines. :)
Can the tech press please start using "CMR" or "conventional magnetic recording" in order to differentiate that the drive isn't "SMR" or "shingled magnetic recording"?
Using PMR is just bad semantics because all modern hard drives are PMR regardless of whether they are shingled or not.
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iter - Wednesday, March 21, 2018 - link
"that does not use shingled magnetic recording"Praise Gilgamesh!
Chaitanya - Wednesday, March 21, 2018 - link
what is platter density of these drives?PeachNCream - Wednesday, March 21, 2018 - link
Desktop hard drive platters are almost all made of aluminum so their density is going to be roughly 2.70 grams per cubic centimeter.iter - Wednesday, March 21, 2018 - link
Pretty sure they move away from that.edzieba - Wednesday, March 21, 2018 - link
I don't know of any drives that still use aluminum platters, everyone transitioned to glass/ceramic a decade ago.Samus - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link
Some of the first drives with glass platters were the 2003-era IBM Deathstar GXP's (first gen 75GXP, next gen 60GXP) and we all know how that turned out...the issues have since obviously been ironed out. The problem really came down to the heads not being engineered for glass platters.PeachNCream - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link
That's odd. I've seen lots of 2.5 inch hard drives with glass platters, but I've had to destroy lots and lots of 3.5 inch drives over the years and none of them that have been through the crusher shatter. They're all nice bendy aluminum and usually no more than about 3 years old (if they haven't had a premature failure anyhow). You can always tell the glass and ceramic ones because they leave a shattered mess inside the drive and some of it finds its way out after crushing to leave a mess to sweep up from the inside of the machines. :)ZeDestructor - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link
They're back to coated aluminium these daysHurr Durr - Wednesday, March 21, 2018 - link
I`d like to know when 14 or at least 12TB will be available in their tabletop backup series.takeshi7 - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link
Can the tech press please start using "CMR" or "conventional magnetic recording" in order to differentiate that the drive isn't "SMR" or "shingled magnetic recording"?Using PMR is just bad semantics because all modern hard drives are PMR regardless of whether they are shingled or not.