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… According to John Morris, Seagate's Chief Technical Officer, the 50TB capacities Seagate envisions for future disks will require the read-write transducer to fly across the disk at 2.5 meters per second, while also keeping its position on the drive accurate within just 2.4nm. …
… There are also some strong sales on Seagate storage devices. …
… However, that's an outlier -- Seagate drives tend toward higher failure rates, with some 12-14TB models hitting an AFR of 4-5%. On the other hand, Seagate drives are also cheaper, and Backblaze still sees the value in using Seagate drives for its large-scale operation. …
… Unlike the Seagate and Samsung hardware, the ExaDrive uses both conventional SATA and SAS Serial Attached SCSI . …