Seagate is on the brink of launch its first high-capacity HAMR onerous drive

Seagate’s Mozaic 3 Plus expertise permits for larger onerous drive capacities by making information bits smaller and nearer collectively on every disk. To write information, a laser diode connected to the drive’s recording heads heats small areas of the disk. “Each bit is heated and cools down in a nanosecond, so the HAMR laser has no affect in any respect on drive temperature, or on the temperature, stability, or reliability of the media general,” Seagate writes on its web site.

Seagate says its Exos M onerous drive has a 3TB per platter density, making it helpful for enterprise purposes like powering AI techniques. We nonetheless don’t know when Seagate might launch its Exos M onerous drive, as its product web page at present reveals a hyperlink to “Stay Informed,” however a launch appears imminent.

As identified by Tom’s Guide, Seagate stated in a submitting earlier this month that it had “efficiently accomplished qualification testing” for its HAMR onerous drives with “a number of prospects inside the Mass Capacity markets, together with a number one cloud service supplier.” It says it’s going to begin delivery its HAMR-based onerous drive to the unnamed cloud supplier within the “coming weeks.”

The Verge reached out to Seagate with a request for extra data however didn’t instantly hear again.