Roadmap Discussion

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Roadmap Discussion

• Magnetic Storage Technologies

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Digital appetite the background

• Gadget lovers are so hungry for digital data many
  are carrying the equivalent of 10 trucks full of
  paper in "weight".
• If digital hoarding habits continue on this
  scale, people could be carrying around a
  "digitally obese" 20 gigabytes by next year.
• "Britain has become a nation of information
  hoarders with a ferocious appetite for data,"
• Martin Larsson, general manager of Toshiba's
  European storage device division. (9 December
  2004 - http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/40794
  17.stm)

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Sectors considered

• Hard Disc Drives
• Media, Heads, Integration systems
• Tape Drives
• Media, Heads, Integration systems
• Flexible media
• Other storage, security applications

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Hard disc drives nearly 50 years driven by
technology
Historical progress faster than Moores law
several technology revolutions e.g GMR heads.
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But the market is changing

• Processes and content are becoming
• Digital
• Mobile
• Virtual
• Personal
• Carly Fiorina,
• HP

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A new driving force
Consumer Electronics Market
GS
Samsung
Toshiba
STX
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Growth Y/Y 96 Q/Q 34
Q1 FY05 11.6M Units
Includes 3.5-, 2.5-, 1.8- and 1-inch drives
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1 drives and below
iPod Mini 4GB
Seagate ST1 CF 5GB card
BUSAN, Korea - September 7, 2004 Samsung
Electronics unveiled the first-ever mobile phone
(model SPH-V5400) with an internal hard disc
drive
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Technology alone is no longer enough, but..
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Western Digital view (Feb 2004)
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Challenges for disc drives

• Seamless transition to Perpendicular recording
  (2005-6)
• Write poles, Channels, SUL media
• Overcoming conflict between media thermal
  stability and writability
• gt2.4 T ?, Coercivity for bit-cell size,
  Superparamagnetism
• Head-disc interface
• Tribology and surface engineering
• Low cost patterned media
• Non-lithographic solutions
• Drive mechanical performance
• Shock tolerance, vibration tolerance,
• COST, COST, COST
• Demands of Consumer Electronics applications
• A personal opinion from Rob Hardeman December 2004

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Tape drives

• In the consumer, audio, video, broadcasting arena
  the end is probably in sight for all forms of
  magnetic tape e.g. cassette, VHS, open-reel
• Mastering hard discs
• Video recording hard discs DVD-R.
• Audio recording hard discs, flash, CD-R,
  DVD-R..
• The growth of broadband communications, Video on
  Demand, podcasting etc will only accelerate this
  trend.
• Specialist applications will remain but the
  volume days are virtually over.
• In the data world however, things are very
  different
• Information Lifecycle management - ILM

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INSIC view
Reported by Dr Richard Dee StorageTek
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Tape roadmap StorageTek
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Tape Drives - LTO
Update this is now available
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Tape challenges

• Maintaining the volumetric and cost advantages
• Precision mechanical requirements for high-speed
  transport
• - tape backings, servos, interchangeability
• Tribology wear of head-media interface
• - compatibility for removable media
• Performance, cost and yield of multi-channel
  heads

A personal opinion from Rob Hardeman December 2004
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Other magnetic media

• Magnetic stripes
• Established standards for credit cards, tickets.
• Market will be eroded by chippin, RFID etc but
  still high volume
• Unlikely, however, to see significant
  development..
• Floppy disc
• Becoming a curiosity insufficient capacity
• Drives not being fitted in many PCs
• Supplanted by email, USB memory, CD-RW

A personal opinion from Rob Hardeman December 2004
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Information Storage in the UK
http//www.linkisd.org.uk/StorageGuide.pdf
(June 2004)
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Summary

• Magnetic disc drives face many challenges other
  than technical it is now a commodity consumer
  marketplace.
• Technical challenges are focussed on recovering
  the slope of the areal density curve which has
  slowed to where near-plateaux are appearing.
• Disc drives (magnetic and optical) look to be
  dominating at the expense of tape.
• Other media retain significant niches, but these
  are reducing with time.

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INSIC material

• Backup

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INSIC TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

• Increased storage density of magnetic disk,
  magnetic tape and optical technologies by 10X to
  100X over current technologies, including
• magnetic read/write heads
• magnetic and optical storage media
• head/media interface
• signal processing
• servo and tracking
• optical sources and components

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INSIC continued

• Advanced manufacturing tools and processes for
  storage devicesStorage software to improve
  management and accessibility of stored
  informationProof of concept of alternative
  storage technologies with performance potential
  beyond conventional approaches,
  including holographic storage
• near-field optical storage
• probe storage
• solid-state nonvolatile memory devicesStorage
  system architecture to enable broader and easier
  application of storage devices to network and
  non-computer environmentsNew storage-intensive
  application demonstrations through partnerships
  with end-users and companion technology providers

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INSIC Tape Roadmap
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NSIC limit 1 Tbit/sq in
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ILM No single product can make it happen
Storage Mgmt SW
Enterprise disk
Virtual tape
Online (ms)
Client server disk
Update Journal
Aging 30 days
Amount of Data
Online (ms)
Aging 3 months
ATA inline storage
Data Value Reference Frequency
Email archive
Fast access tape
Retrieval Activity
Nearline (ms)
Aging to 1 Year
Capacity tape
Nearline (min)
Aging to 1 Years
Deletion
Time
Advanced Technology Attached