Toshiba starts shipping SMR MAMR enterprise hard drives offering up to 34TB of storage
Toshiba's newest HDDs are bigger and more efficient at handling data center workloads
Seagate is now shipping HAMR disk drives holding up to 44TB of data
A hyperscaler's dream for cheap and plentiful storage technology, with some caveats
Seagate says its next-gen HAMR tech could push HDDs to 10TB per platter
Data density has already reached 6.9TB per platter, and can theoretically go even higher
Toshiba's 12-disk hard drive breakthrough could lead to 40TB models by 2027
The company's new glass-based design packs more platters into the same 3.5-inch form factor
Hard drive makers WD and Seagate ride the AI surge as storage needs explode
How AI turned hard drives into a hot commodity again
Seagate brings HAMR to market with new 30TB Exos and IronWolf Pro drives
HAMR roadmap begins with 30TB drives, 100TB expected by 2030
Western Digital's plans for HAMR hard disk drives will materialize in 2027
Is Western Digital finally ready to embrace heat-assisted magnetic recording?
Western Digital targets 100TB disk drives with HAMR and HDMR advancements
Roadmap for next-generation HDD technology
Seagate is now sampling 36TB hard drives based on HAMR technology
The highest-capacity units are based on SMR technology
Seagate to launch world's first high-capacity HDDs based on HAMR technology
Forward-looking: Heat-assisted magnetic recording is a technological breakthrough that has been decades in the making. The first patent describing a method for using heat to record data through a magnetic field dates back to 1954. Seagate began researching "modern" HAMR hard drives in the 1990s. Now, the American manufacturer is finally shipping its first commercially available HAMR hard drives.
Seagate says their new Mozaic 3+ HAMR disk drives can last longer than conventional HDDs
Setting the record straight against misconceptions, myths, and industry chatter
Seagate developing dual-layer, heat-assisted magnetic recording tech for 120TB HDDs
A never-ending race to increase magnetic media storage capabilities
Seagate launches Mozaic 3+ platform for 30 TB and larger HAMR-based hard drives
Reaching unprecedented areal density per platter with four major technology innovations
Seagate is preparing 32TB HAMR hard drives for next year, 40TB within two
Company hopes to reach volume-worthy yields early next year
Seagate's new Exos X24 hard disk line reaches up to 24TB and 28TB
Industry-leading capacity for hyperscale customers, while HAMR drives are coming
Seagate says mass production of HAMR hard drives is coming, starting at 30TB
In a nutshell: Seagate has started shipping its first HAMR hard disks for data center solutions, bringing the novel storage technology a step closer to mass production and consumer sales. However, traditional PMR and SMR-based recording technologies are not completely obsolete yet.
Western Digital hopes to release HAMR drives within the next 1.5 years
A 50 TB WD Blue could be coming soon
Seagate's mass-produced HAMR hard drives to debut at 32TB, followed by 40TB
Company plans to release 28TB and 32TB HDDs later this year
Seagate: 30TB second-generation HAMR hard disks are almost here
Mass production for larger-than-life HDDs is expected to start this year
Seagate making progress on second-generation HAMR tech, 30-terabyte HDDs incoming
The company is going all-in on HAMR
Coating HAMR HDD platters with graphene could increase storage capacity by up to 10 times
Graphene layers may increase disk drives' storage density as much as 10 TB per square inch
Western Digital is sampling next-gen 16TB hard drives using MAMR technology
The company plans to increase capacities by 4TB every year
Seagate announces "world's first" 16TB 3.5-inch hard drive
Company will shoot for a 20TB in 2020
Seagate reveals storage roadmap showing 20TB drives by 2020
100TB hard drives are now in sight
