90% more energy efficient than traditional hard drives – data centers will appreciate it.
At the recently concluded Mobile World Congress 2024 exhibition in Barcelona, Huawei's representative, Dr. Peter Zhou, announced the imminent launch of a qualitatively new product in the field of data storage.
Zhou said that the new technology, called "MED" (Magneto-Electric Disk), will reduce overall connection costs by 20% compared to tape drives (still used in large data centers) and reduce power consumption by 90% compared to classic hard drives.
A representative of Huawei's main office in China said that the magnetoelectric disk developed by the company represents the next generation of magnetic media. The announced solution will be a huge capacity storage device.
The company claims that one fully equipped rack with such devices will provide over 10 petabytes of virtual space, and its energy consumption will be just under 2 kW. At the same time, the current ultimate solutions are significantly inferior to Huawei's development both in terms of available memory and power consumption.
The MED drive will go on sale under the code name OceanStor Arctic in the first half of 2025. The company itself positions it as an ideal choice for building AI data centers where maximum performance and low energy costs are required. However, no one can prevent using such drives for trivial storage of large amounts of data.
Thus, the development of the Chinese tech giant opens up new horizons for the development of the AI industry and working with large amounts of data. This, of course, should have a positive impact on the overall level of global technological progress and will certainly create additional opportunities for scientific discoveries and innovations in various fields.
At the recently concluded Mobile World Congress 2024 exhibition in Barcelona, Huawei's representative, Dr. Peter Zhou, announced the imminent launch of a qualitatively new product in the field of data storage.
Zhou said that the new technology, called "MED" (Magneto-Electric Disk), will reduce overall connection costs by 20% compared to tape drives (still used in large data centers) and reduce power consumption by 90% compared to classic hard drives.
A representative of Huawei's main office in China said that the magnetoelectric disk developed by the company represents the next generation of magnetic media. The announced solution will be a huge capacity storage device.
The company claims that one fully equipped rack with such devices will provide over 10 petabytes of virtual space, and its energy consumption will be just under 2 kW. At the same time, the current ultimate solutions are significantly inferior to Huawei's development both in terms of available memory and power consumption.
The MED drive will go on sale under the code name OceanStor Arctic in the first half of 2025. The company itself positions it as an ideal choice for building AI data centers where maximum performance and low energy costs are required. However, no one can prevent using such drives for trivial storage of large amounts of data.
Thus, the development of the Chinese tech giant opens up new horizons for the development of the AI industry and working with large amounts of data. This, of course, should have a positive impact on the overall level of global technological progress and will certainly create additional opportunities for scientific discoveries and innovations in various fields.
