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OCP 22: World's first Seagate NVMe 2.0 hard disk (HDD) is now in flesh and blood

The NVMe 20 specification

In June last year, the NVM Express (NVMe) consortium announced the NVMe 2.0 specifications. As expected, the new specs brought in several improvements and features, one of which was the ability to support rotational media on the NVMe interface, essentially meaning that NVMe hard disk drives (HDDs) would be a real thing if things went as planned.

Later on in November, at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2021, Seagate became the first company to talk about the world's first NVMe HDD prototype. In a demo, Seagate and its partners devised a 2U 12-bay JBOD enclosure via a PCIe switch to demonstrate the benefits of NVMe hard disks.

Seagate NVMe HDD

NVMe HDD prototype

NVMe HDD JBOD enclosure demo

2U 12-bay JBOD enclosure

Now, almost exactly a year later, courtesy of StorageReview, we have a glimpse of what an NVMe HDD would look like as an almost-finished ready-for-retail sample. The sample was demoed at this year's OCP Global Summit 2022 event.

Seagate NVMe HDD

While on the surface it looks like any Seagate Exos drive - which is the company's premium enterprise grade HDD lineup - the letters "NVMe"clearly stand out on the 3.5" SKU as it's not the norm on current products.

In terms of capacity, the NVMe HDDs might be 18TB models as Seagate had previously labeled the Exos X18 branding on the prototype. However, this is not confirmed at the moment.

Source and image: StorageReview

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