Seagate Unveils Major Breakthrough in Storage Technology: High-Capacity HAMR Hard Drive Launch Imminent

Seagate is Getting Ready to Launch Its First High-Capacity HAMR Hard Drive

After more than two decades of development, it appears that Seagate is finally preparing to release a high-capacity hard drive using heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology. A recently spotted product page for the Exos M hard drive reveals that it will offer up to 32TB of storage, a significant increase in capacity over previous offerings.

According to Seagate’s Mozaic 3 Plus website, their HAMR platform achieves this increased capacity by allowing data bits to be written smaller and closer together on each disk. To achieve this, the drive uses a laser diode attached to its recording heads to heat specific areas of the disk. This process allows for more efficient storage while maintaining reliability and stability.

The Exos M hard drive’s 3TB per platter density makes it particularly well-suited for enterprise applications such as powering AI systems. While no official release date has been announced, a launch seems imminent given the product page’s current status and Seagate’s recent filing with regulators.

In its filing, Seagate revealed that it had completed qualification testing of its HAMR hard drives with several customers in the Mass Capacity markets, including a leading cloud service provider. The company plans to begin shipping these drives to this customer within the “coming weeks.”

As the industry continues to shift towards flash storage and solid-state drives (SSDs), Seagate’s entry into the high-capacity hard drive market could give it an advantage in certain enterprise segments. Other companies, such as Western Digital and Toshiba, are also working on similar technologies.

Seagate has not yet responded to The Verge’s request for additional information regarding its Exos M hard drive.

Source: www.theverge.com