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Seagate is getting ready to launch its first high-capacity HAMR hard drive
Seagate is poised to release its first high-capacity heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) hard drive, according to a recently spotted product page. The new Exos M hard drive will reportedly feature up to 32TB of storage using the company’s Mozaic 3 Plus HAMR platform.
The technology behind Seagate’s HAMR system is designed to increase data density by making individual data bits smaller and closer together on each disk. To accomplish this, a laser diode attached to the drive’s recording heads heats small areas of the disk. According to Seagate, this process takes place rapidly, with each bit being heated and cooled in just one nanosecond. This means that the HAMR laser has no impact on either the drive’s temperature or the overall stability and reliability of the media.
The new Exos M hard drive is expected to be particularly useful for large-scale enterprise applications such as powering AI systems, thanks to its 3TB per platter density. While a release date has not been confirmed by Seagate, it appears that the company is on the cusp of launching this highly anticipated product.
In related news, Western Digital recently released a 32TB hard drive using energy-assisted perpendicular magnetic recording (ePMR) in October, while Toshiba demonstrated high-capacity hard drives utilizing both HAMR and microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR).
Source: www.theverge.com
