Subj : Huawei has a game-changing 10 Petabyte storage product  OceanStor
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Date : Mon Mar 11 2024 07:00:08

Huawei has a game-changing 10 Petabyte storage product  OceanStor Arctic uses 
exciting new technology that can beat tape AND hard drives

Date:
Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:49:10 +0000

Description:
Huawei's OceanStor Arctic storage solution can hold over 10PB of warm and 
cold data.

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According to recent estimates, around 328.77 million terabytes of data are 
created each day . Storing that data is a challenge, so its no wonder that 
were seeing a number of new high-capacity storage technologies being 
introduced. In the past few months alone weve reported on a ceramic cartridge 
with a 10,000TB capacity , a 200TB optical disc , and Microns NVDRAM , which 
outperforms NAND-based SSDs in terms of speed and durability. 

At a keynote speech at MWC 2024 , Huaweis Dr. Peter Zhou took the wraps off a 
number of new data storage solutions being introduced by the company. 
OceanStor A800 and OceanStor A310 are designed to make AI training data 
globally visible, manageable, and available, and improves data collection, 
preprocessing, and training efficiency, while OceanProtect E8000 and X9000 
are data backup appliance solutions. 

Perhaps the most exciting announcement however, covers the company's next-gen 
OceanStor Arctic magneto-electric storage solution. Over 10PB capacity 

Although details on OceanStor Arctic are a little light at the moment, we 
know that its designed for warm and cold data. Huawei has also said that it 
is projected to reduce TCO by 20% compared to tape, and reduce power 
consumption by 90% compared to hard drives. 

Huaweis China HQ has since provided a little more detail, telling Blocks & 
Files , Huaweis MED (magneto-electric disk) brings brand-new innovation 
against magnetic media. The first generationof MED willbe as a big capacity 
disk. The rack capacity will be more than 10 PB and power consumption less 
than 2 KW. For the first generation of MED, we will position it mainly for 
archival storage. 

 Toms Hardware suggests that since the technology is a magneto-electric disk 
(MED), not a magneto-electric drive, we are dealing with something that has 
magnetic platters with tracks (and probably spins). The underlying principle 
of MED technology seems to be the magneto-electric effect, which creates a 
connection between the magnetic and electric properties of a material. 

The first generation of the OceanStor Arctic is slated for international 
release in the first half of 2025. More from TechRadar Pro These are the best 
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