"Seagate Unveils Industry-Leading 30TB HAMR Hard Drive"
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Slashdot
Seagate has introduced the Mozaic 3+ platform, utilizing heat-assisted media recording (HAMR) technology to increase the areal recording density of magnetic media, enabling upcoming Exos hard drives for cloud datacenters with a 30TB capacity and higher. The platform incorporates new media, write and read heads, and a controller, featuring 10 glass disks with a special magnetic layer, a plasmonic writer sub-system, and a Gen 7 Spintronic Reader with tiny magnetic field sensors. The new technology requires significant compute power, leading to the inclusion of an all-new 12nm fabrication process controller.