And this is where STX's edge comes in. You see, STX already has shipments of HAMR as of now. And over 850 patents in HAMR-specific tech. This provides an IP moat and a time-to-market advantage.

Seagate has announced that it will be launching its second-generation HAMR HDDs with capacities of 30TB in mid-2023, but even more mammoth HAMR HDDs are coming: 40TB+ in 2024, and 50TB+ in 2025.

A new hard drive based on the long-promised heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology is almost here. Tom’s Hardware reported that a new sales page popped up on the Seagate website ...

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 ...

The company intends to release a 44 TB HAMR drive by 2027 and advance to a 50 TB drive by 2028. These plans reflect a one-year shift from the original goal of introducing a 50 TB HDD in 2026.

While standard disks based on conventional magnetic recording methods have a recording density of approximately 1.14 Tb/in2, HAMR-based media can achieve recording density of 5-6Tb/in2.

The US corporation spent more than $2 billion to develop Mozaic 3+ and the first commercial HAMR drives, providing new levels of mass-capacity storage with areal densities of 3TB per disk and beyond.

HAMR HDDs, developed by the likes of Seagate, have just hit the market after years of conceptualization, testing and prototyping; and hopes are high. In December 2020, Japanese researchers managed ...