Seagate announced that they are shipping 36TB HAMR evaluation drives to customers. A study shows AI will drive demand for storage solutions, such as these.

Seagate is the only data storage company that can achieve areal densities of 3.6TB per hard drive platter today, with a pathway to increasing per-platter capacity to 10TB.

Seagate is exclusively adopting HAMR technology with its new 36TB Exos M HDD, moving away from CMR and SMR. This results in a 25% reduction in cost per TB, which is critical to maintaining the capacity-to-price ratio that keeps HDDs still relevant in an industry where SSDs offer faster speeds and are increasingly cheaper.

"Seagate continues to lead in areal density, sampling drives on the Exos M platform of up to 36TB today," said Dave Mosley, Seagate CEO. Also, we are executing on our innovation roadmap, having now successfully demonstrated capacities of over 6TB per disk within our test lab environments."

Seagate has launched a hard drive with capacities of up to 36TB, expanding the Mozaic 3+ Platform. Takeaway Points Seagate has launched a hard drive capacity of up to 36TB. Dell Technologies is one of the first customers to adopt Mozaic 3+ and will soon integrate Exos M 32TB into their high-density storage systems.