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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

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. 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 ...
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 ...