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Race to 100TB HDD heats up as Seagate pulls rug under Western Digital, Toshiba feet by acquiring HAMR-specialist
Seagate is set to buy Intevac, a specialist in HAMR drive production HAMR is seen as the technology which is going to drive HDDs to 100TB+ The move is a serious blow to Western Digital and Toshiba ...
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Beyond 100TB, here's how Western Digital is betting on heat dot magnetic recording to reach the storage skies
The company’s roadmap to the future of HDD technology shows a clear progression from energy-assisted Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (ePMR) to Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR ...
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Seagate acquires Intevac, which makes equipment for hard disk drives, for $119M
One of the technologies that the firm touts as its preferred solution, heat-assisted magnetic recording, or HAMR, improves the “writeability” and storage density of hard drives by applying ...
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Western Digital to unveil 44TB HAMR HDDs in 2026, 100TB in 2030
Western Digital this week outlined its future hard disk drive technology roadmap and revealed plans to adopt heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) for its HDDs beginning in late 2026.
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Western Digital targets 100TB disk drives with HAMR and HDMR advancements
It plans to leverage two advanced storage technologies in the coming years: heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) and heat dot magnetic recording (HDMR), which are expected to improve data ...