Seagate Technology has long promoted heated magnetic recording (HAMR) technology, which involves briefly heating an area of a magnetic platter before recording information. She even arranged the supply of samples of the corresponding hard drives in batches of several thousand pieces, but such technology should become widespread only after the transition to the second generation.
This can be seen, as Tom's Hardware explains , by examining the transcript of the speech of the Seagate CFO at the Citi Global technology conference. Gianluca Romano reminded at this event that the company has been supplying 20 TB hard drives using the first generation of HAMR technology since December last year. Seagate endeavors to offer them in quantities sufficient to enable customers to become familiar with the new product type. Seagate is currently developing second-generation hard drives with HAMR technology, which will allow the creation of 30 TB drives, according to a company spokesman. It is the products of this generation that will become truly mainstream, as noted by the Seagate CFO.
Since the timing of the appearance of such drives has not been named, it remains to be guided by the early mentions of Seagate about the main milestones in the development of magnetic recording technologies in this decade. By mid-2025, the company planned to introduce 50 TB hard drives, now it has 20 TB drives, so the company should conquer the 30 TB milestone sometime before the end of 2023. By the end of the decade, Seagate had set the goal of increasing its hard drive capacity to 100 TB. The density of information recording for this will have to be increased by more than five times. The development of suitable magnetic plates is expected to be a major constraint towards this goal. Typically, the existing 18TB Seagate drives rely on more traditional perpendicular and 2D magnetic recording technologies, respectively.
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