Seagate is on the point of launch its first high-capacity HAMR arduous drive

Seagate’s Mozaic 3 Plus expertise permits for greater arduous drive capacities by making information bits smaller and nearer collectively on every disk. To jot down information, a laser diode connected to the drive’s recording heads heats small areas of the disk. “Every 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 total,” Seagate writes on its web site.

Seagate says its Exos M arduous drive has a 3TB per platter density, making it helpful for enterprise purposes like powering AI methods. We nonetheless don’t know when Seagate might launch its Exos M arduous drive, as its product web page at the moment exhibits a hyperlink to “Keep Knowledgeable,” however a launch appears imminent.

As identified by Tom’s Information, Seagate stated in a submitting earlier this month that it had “efficiently accomplished qualification testing” for its HAMR arduous drives with “a number of prospects inside the Mass Capability markets, together with a number one cloud service supplier.” It says it can begin delivery its HAMR-based arduous 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.