Seagate aims to launch 50TB HAMR hard drives in 2027

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I Smell Teras: While reporting its financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026, Seagate also shared some interesting technology updates. The HDD manufacturer is continuing to develop its HAMR-based storage products, with 50TB drives expected to become available for customer validation soon. Just a reminder: "customers" in this context means Big Tech and AI companies – certainly not the rest of us.

According to Seagate CFO Gianluca Romano, the US company is on track to achieve a storage density of more than 5TB per platter. In layman's terms, Seagate should soon be able to sell individual HDDs containing ten 5TB+ platters, resulting in more than 50TB of storage capacity on a single drive. In fact, this unprecedented level of storage density is already scheduled to reach the market in late...

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