Seagate is set to buy Intevac, a specialist in HAMR drive production HAMR is seen as the technology which is going to drive HDDs to 100TB+ The move is a serious blow to Western Digital and Toshiba ...

The company’s roadmap to the future of HDD technology shows a clear progression from energy-assisted Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (ePMR) to Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR ...

Tan also publicly announced WDC’s development of HAMR HDDs, shown in the image below. WDC said that it is taking a measured approach to introducing HAMR HDDs, which it projects could enable HDDs ...

Western Digital (WD) will base new high-capacity hard drives on HAMR technology in the coming years. It has announced a migration plan for this purpose. From 2026/2027, mass production of these types ...

To meet this demand today and into the future, Tan announced that the company’s HAMR development is accelerating as testing is underway with two major hyperscale customers.” Published first on ...