SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Arie van der Hoeven
Principal Product Manager
Seagate Technology
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Unleashing the Performance of Multi-Actuator Drives
Applications desire for higher IOPS & bandwidth is driving innovations at the hardware level. This requires software stack awareness to harness the benefits. Multi-actuator drives represent the next big innovation in performance.
Dual actuator drives are being deployed today in large numbers for specific storage applications with Seagate MACH.2 SAS drives. This meets a growing need for large disk sizes that can meet both TCO and IOPS goals . As aerial densities and drive sizes increase, multi-actuator drives are migrating from early adopter deployments to the mainstream. This offers the promise of deploying larger disk sizes while continuing to meet performance goals, but only if there is software stack awareness that a single drive whether SATA, SAS or NVMe has two or more actuators that can be treated as logically independent disks for optimal performance. In this talk storage experts will explain what has been learned from early adoption, how this can be deployed for scenarios including CDN, Object Store, Big Data, AI and Machine Learning and what types of IO perform best in this new storage hardware paradigm. Coming support for SATA presents new challenges and deployment and software options including use of optimized Linux IO schedulers such as BFQ. Are you ready for the future of hard disk storage?
Challenges and Opportunities in Storage Security
Security and privacy requirements are evolving fast prompted in part by initiatives coming out of the US and the EU. In the Open Compute Project security implementations are being introduced that have silicon and firmware impacts, but that promise a more open and common approach to security. Post Quantum Compute and CNSA 2.0 are another trend that will become a requirement the ecosystem is not yet ready. SBOMs and HBOMs (Software and Hardware Bills of Materials) on the horizon.
Data sanitization and circularity are also on the forefront with groups like IEEE 2883 Standard for Sanitizing Storage. Drives capable of crypto-erase, both SED and ISE, will become standard for HDDs to meet current and future requirements.
In this talk we will share an HDD device vendor view of these new changes. Many of the new requirements already exist in the HDD ecosystem and have for some time but are implemented in a proprietary way with third party firmware audits, penetration testing, FIPS and Common Criteria validation and verifiable sanitization methods.
In summary this is a complex landscape with a myriad of standards. Security, and sustainability are not well understood at the board room level, yet they are top priorities for all companies. The industry needs to coalesce around a common strategy and approach that ensures data security while understanding the costs and resource constraints related to major changes.