Seagate Sees Fresh Spin For NVMe Hybrid Flash/Disk Array
Blocks&Files, Tuesday, March 25th, 2025
A Seagate blog says that fast-access hybrid flash+disk drive arrays are a good fit to AI workload needs because retaining large datasets solely on SSDs is financially unsustainable for most enterprises.
It goes on to say that, by adopting a parallel NVMe interface instead of the existing serial SAS/SATA hard disk drive (HDD) interface, we can 'remove the need for HBAs, protocol bridges, and additional SAS infrastructure, making AI storage more streamlined.' By using 'a single NVMe driver and OS stack, these drives ensure that hard drives and SSDs work together efficiently, removing the need for separate software layers.'