Seagate Introduces Industry's First HAMR Technology Platform for Hard Disk Drives

This IDC Market Note explores the introduction of the hard drive industry's first heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) platform for hard disk drives (HDDs) by Seagate branded as Mozaic 3+. "After more than 20 years of research and product development, Seagate has introduced the industry's HAMR hard drive platform branded as Mozaic 3+," said Ed Burns, research director, Hard Disk Drive and Storage Technologies at IDC. "This promises to be the platform that will deliver a reacceleration of areal density growth in the HDD industry and is expected to enable the introduction of a series of higher-capacity HAMR hard disk drives to meet the growing need for high-density and cost-effective storage in the datacenter for years to come.'