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Dr. Werner ScholzXENON Systems, CTO and Head of R&Dwerners@xenon.com.au

www.xenon.com.au

Storage Technologies for Today and Tomorrow

Storage and Filesystems Workshop, Melbourne, Australia

15 Oct. 2018

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● XENON Overview

● Storage Market Overview

● Storage Technology Roadmap

● New developments in hard disk drive technologies (HAMR, MAMR, BPM)

● Solid state storage (Flash, Phase Change, RRAM, MRAM)

● Exotic storage technologies

● "Software Defined Storage" Still Needs (and Sells) Smart Hardware

● Open discussion

Outline

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XENON Systems – A History of High Performance Solutions

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Storage Market Overview

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Storage Technology Roadmap

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SIM

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HAMR Technology Breakdown

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HAMR (Seagate)

● Manufacturability: Built over 40,000 HAMR drives; pilot volume in 2018, volume shipments of 20TB+ drives in 2019; drives are built on the same automated assembly line as current products

● Capacity: Achieved 2 Tbpsi areal density; 30% annual density growth on HAMR over past nine years

● Reliability: Tests proved single-head data transfers of over 2PB, exceeds real-world specifications

● Simplicity: HAMR is transparent to host; passed customer testing using standard code

● Cost: Supply chain fully established and ready to launch; projected cost-per-TB path beats legacy PMR technology

MAMR (WDC)

HAMR vs. MAMR

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Solid State Storage

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FeRAM (Toshiba 2009) MRAM (Motorola/Everspin 2009) RRAM (HP 2009) PCRAM (Samsung 2008)

Solid State Storage

3D XPoint (Intel 2017)

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Seagate demo: NAND-Flash + MRAM

Open Channel SSDIBM Flashsystem 9100

Everspin 1GB MRAM NVMe SSD

Solid State Storage Novelties

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Exotic Storage TechnologiesDNA

Diamond

Rb vapor

Nitrogen in Diamond

Racetrack

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"Software Defined Storage" Still Needs (and Sells) Smart Hardware

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● [stx01] https://blog.seagate.com/craftsman-ship/hamr-next-leap-forward-now/

● [stx02] https://blog.seagate.com/business/seagate-continues-to-lead-as-hamr-technology-advances/

● [stx03] https://www.seagate.com/www-content/ti-dm/tech-insights/en-us/docs/TP707-1-1712US_HAMR.pdf

● [tq01] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnM38b_CMIo

● [cw01] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2846415/seagate-preps-for-30tb-laser-assisted-hard-drives.html

● [th01] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-wd-hamr-mamr-20tb,35821.html

● [wdc01] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRhPYzgpet4

● [wdc02] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iEOGxF7gLk

● [wdc03] http://innovation.wdc.com/game-changers/why-mamr.html

● [wdc04] https://blog.westerndigital.com/rise-helium-drives/

● [reg01] https://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2014/11/10/kryders_law_of_ever_cheaper_storage_disproven/

● [bar01] https://www.barrons.com/articles/western-digital-vs-seagate-battle-royale-of-hamr-against-mamr-1522254361

● [tmrc01] http://tmrc2018.ucsd.edu/download/2018TMRCKeynoteSpeech.pdf

● [tmrc02] Kanai et al., Micromagnetic model simulations considering write head, spin-torque oscillator, and double-layered medium altogetherDigests of The 29th Magnetic Recording Conference (TMRC 2018): http://tmrc2018.ucsd.edu/Archive/Digest.pdf

● [tmrc03] Coughlin et al., Trends and applications for emerging memory technologies,Digests of The 29th Magnetic Recording Conference (TMRC 2018): http://tmrc2018.ucsd.edu/Archive/Digest.pdf

● [scia01] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-turns-to-biology-as-data-storage-needs-explode/

● [nat01] https://www.nature.com/news/how-dna-could-store-all-the-world-s-data-1.20496

● [tr01] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601851/microsoft-reports-a-big-leap-forward-for-dna-data-storage/

● [msft01] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/dna-storage/ Organick et al., Scaling up DNA data storage and random access retrieval, bioRxiv preprint first posted online Mar. 7, 2017; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/114553Rastchian et al., Clustering Billions of Reads for DNA Data Storage, 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017), Long Beach, CA, USA.http://papers.nips.cc/paper/6928-clustering-billions-of-reads-for-dna-data-storage.pdf

References● [ubas01] https://www.unibas.ch/de/Aktuell/News/Uni-Research/Schneller-Quantenspeicher-fuer-Photonen.html

● [prl01] Simple Atomic Quantum Memory Suitable for Semiconductor Quantum Dot Single PhotonsJanik Wolters, Gianni Buser, Andrew Horsley, Lucas Béguin, Andreas Jöckel, Jan-Philipp Jahn, Richard J. Warburton, and Philipp Treutlein, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 060502 – Published 8 August 2017https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.060502

● [sci01] http://www.scinexx.de/wissen-aktuell-22417-2018-02-14.html

● [nat02] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-017-0008-y

● [tuw01] https://www.tuwien.ac.at/de/aktuelles/news_detail/article/125614/

● [mpg01] https://www.mpg.de/5838737/quanteninformation_quantenspeicher_raumtemperatur

● [os01] https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~sllu/xie.pdf

● [forb01] https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2018/07/23/semicon-emerging-memory/#339cfa5e2ed7

● [ant01] https://www.anandtech.com/show/13174/ibm-and-everspin-announce-19tb-nvme-ssd-with-mram-write-cache https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/IBM-SSD-mit-STT-MRAM-4130428.html

● [hei02] https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/FMS-2017-Seagate-mit-64-TByte-PCIe-SSD-3797631.html

● [kum01] Dileep Kumar, A Study about Non-Volatile Memories, https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/201607.0093/v1/download

● [evs01] https://www.everspin.com/news/everspin-announces-nvnitro%E2%84%A2-nvme-storage-accelerator-family

● [th02] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-wd-hamr-mamr-20tb,35821.html

● [mram01] https://www.mramdeveloperday.com/English/Collaterals/Proceedings/2018/20180806_FinalPanel_MRAM_in_2024_and_How_We_Got_There_Araki.pdf

● [stx04] https://www.seagate.com/au/en/our-story/introducing-mach2/

● [rea01] Rea et al., Heat assisted magnetic recording performance and integration challenges, ODS Conference 2014https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269319284_Heat_assisted_magnetic_recording_performance_and_integration_challenges

● [rtm01] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/26/spintronics_advances_racetrack_memory/ https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/racetrack/

● [shs01] http://en.shannon-sys.com/product_detail?id=4973859839646911603 https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Dumme-SSDs-fuer-grosse-Datenmengen-4132807.html

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Dr. Werner ScholzXENON Systems, CTO and Head of R&Dwerners@xenon.com.au

Thank you!

Questions?

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XENON Company Profile

XENON Systems Pty Ltd10 Westall RoadClayton South, VIC 3169P +61 3 9549 1111F +61 3 9549 1199info@xenon.com.auwww.xenon.com.auABN: 39 074 339 316

Contact DetailsWerner ScholzCTO and Head of R&D03 9549 1140werners@xenon.com.au

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XENON Systems – Who We Are

Australian companyestablished in 1996.

Global Onsite hardware support and installation services in over 80 countries

Focused on innovation and investment in Research & Development

In-house technical ability to build low volume custom designed servers

Direct Relationship with all major component manufacturers to lower cost and speed up support

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