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HAMR tech may push HDDs to 10TB per platter

Heat-assisted magnetic recording is moving from lab curiosity to shipping product, and the payoff is simple: far more bits on every spinning disk. If current prototypes are any guide, the same ...
TweakTown

With Seagate's magnetic HAMR recording technology breakthrough, we could see a single 120TB HDD

We've covered Seagate's HAMR, or Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording, tech for HDDs, which is set to breathe new life into traditional platter-based storage by dramatically increasing the potential ...
Ars Technica

After decades of talk, Seagate seems ready to actually drop the HAMR hard drives

How do you fit 32 terabytes of storage into a hard drive? With a HAMR. Seagate has been experimenting with heat-assisted magnetic recording, or HAMR, since at least 2002. The firm has occasionally ...
The Verge

Seagate is getting ready to launch its first high-capacity HAMR hard drive

Seagate’s long-in-the-works HAMR platform could finally ship with its Exos M hard drive. Seagate’s long-in-the-works HAMR platform could finally ship with its Exos M hard drive. is a news writer who ...