Seagate Muestra Prototipos de Discos Duros NVMe en GTC 2025: Hacia un Futuro de Almacenamiento Unificado

At the 2025 Nvidia GTC event, Seagate demonstrated NVMe-native hard disk drives (HDDs) integrated with Nvidia’s BlueField DPU and AIStore software, showcasing a new direction in storage architecture aimed at AI applications. These NVMe HDD prototypes, based on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology and built with 7nm silicon, combined 4TB SSDs for caching with 32TB HDDs to achieve 256TB of total storage at a 3GB/s data rate—delivering performance on par with high-capacity SSDs but at a sixth of the cost. The push toward NVMe as a common interface across storage types, replacing SAS and SATA, could significantly reduce hardware overhead, system complexity, and power consumption in data centers. Industry leaders like Microsoft, Dell, HP, and WDC have previously supported this transition. Seagate also hinted that major cloud service providers are currently testing these drives, and mass adoption could begin by 2026, particularly with the advent of high-capacity dual actuator drives. The move aligns with broader trends in SSD interface standardization and the declining support for older protocols like SATA. The article argues that NVMe HDDs could become the new norm for enterprise and data center storage solutions by 2028.