A brand new laborious drive primarily based on the long-promised heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) know-how is nearly right here. Tom’s Hardware reported {that a} new gross sales web page popped up on the Seagate web site saying a brand new Exos M 30TM and 32TB laborious disk drive (HDD) that includes 3TB per platter with 3 times the ability effectivity per terabyte in comparison with different laborious drives.
The brand new laborious drive relies on Seagate’s new Mozaic 3+ platform and is its first HDD to make use of HAMR. HAMR refers to a magnetic storage course of wherein localized warmth is utilized to the disk materials throughout writing, which permits for smaller areas and more room per platter. These and different breakthroughs may sometime pave the best way to a 50TB HDD. Right here’s a video from our Upscaled sequence that breaks down your entire course of and what it means for the way forward for HDD storage.
There’s no official launch date but for the Exos M. You may keep updated by e mail of its pending launch on Seagate’s product web page.
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