After launching a magnetic storage drive (HAMR) assisted by 20TB, Seagate reportedly worked on the hard drive with a capacity of 30TB Gianluca Romano, CFO Seagate, in Citi 2021 Global Technology Conference, “We have 20TB HAMR which we actually started selling December last year, [.
..] We only produce sufficient quantities to sell to our main customers so that they get used to the new drive.
We are developing our second generation of HAMR drives that will probably be around 30TB.
that’s what we want to run the drive volume.
“Consumers Using a faster solid-state drive (SSD) for their storage needs while companies that use high-capacity HDD are operator data center exascale such as Google, Apple iCloud, one drive, one drive, among others.
The 2nd generation ham drive for those who are not familiar with HAMR, while heating disk material during the writing process, technology significantly increases the amount of data that can be stored on a magnetic hard drive that allows more data written in the same area.
Hamm Seagate technology allows it to increase the density of HDD regions significantly and rather quickly.
Modern 20TB HDD featuring nine plates has an area density of around 1.116 TB / inch2.
Seagate has led the density of the area.
Up to 2.6 TB / inches with a path to grow to 6TB / inch2 in 2030 to activate a 3.5-inch HDD 100TB.
But Hamr is complicated because it not only requires new heads but also new media, new events regularly slow adoption for mass products.
The future of storage technology does not reveal when the company expects a second generation human rights platform to hit the market.
However, given that Seagate plans to launch HDD 50TB at FY2025 (which ended in mid 2025).
It is reasonable to expect the company to launch a 30TB hard drive around a few moments before (calendar in 2023 or early 2024).
On the one hand, this means that Seagate still has an aggressive plan for HAMR, but on the other hand, this means that the high volume pass from this technology will be postponed by many.
What must still be seen is how Seagate plans to continue to increase the capacity of the hard drive before the next generation HAMR platform appears.
Both Toshiba and Western Digital use energy-assisted magnetic recording technology for their premium products.
Meanwhile, HDD 18TB Seagate depends on PMR and TDMR technology, which has proven to be quite efficient, but most are believed to lose relevance.