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 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 Technology has begun shipping its latest 36TB Exos M hard drive, a product that utilizes heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology to achieve a high storage capacity using a smaller number of platters.

Seagate Technology will begin shipping samples of its Exos M hard drive from today (January 21). Based on the company’s heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology, Mozaic 3+, the hard drives have a capacity of up to 36TB, supporting 10 platters each with a 3.6TB capacity.

However, Seagate is not yet releasing the Exos M 36 TByte to the retail market. Samples will first be sent to data center operators for qualification and evaluation. The situation

Seagate Technology Holdings plc STX has announced the shipment of Exos M hard drive samples to select customers, with capacities of up to 36 terabytes (TB). Using the innovative Mozaic 3+ platform, which features heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology,