Seagate: hamr on track for first half hdd release this year

According to Seagate, the development of its hamr hard drive technology is on track and the first hamr HDD could hit the market in the first half of this year. Seagate has been working on the technology for years.

Seagate CEO Dave Mosley said production will ramp up after partners validate the first products. According to Seagate, the components of the hamr HDDs meet data center requirements and can handle media and write heads up to 4PB per head. That writes AnandTech.

In a previous blog, Seagate already highlighted the long-term performance of the hamr read and write heads, which would exceed customer demands by a factor of twenty. Then the company also said that the storage density is 2,381 terabits per square inch and the storage density of hamr exceeds that of regular hdd techniques.

Seagate has been working on hamr, which stands for heat-assisted magnetic recording, for many years. Here, the magnetic areas where data is stored are demagnetized and remagnetized under heating of a laser. This makes it easier to place data. The technology should ensure higher data density. The first product is a 3.5″ HDD in the Exos line for the enterprise market, with a total of 16 TB of storage, but the next generation will go up to 24 TB.

The first 14TB HDDs with two actuators should also appear later this year. These offer sequential read speeds of 500MB/s.