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Seagate Extends HAMR-Based Mozaic 3+ With 36 TB Hard Drives

Seagate Technology has announced shipments of their latest Exos M hard drive samples to select customers. These new drives offer industry-leading capacities of up to 36 terabytes (TB). They’ve achieved this based on their Mozaic 3+ design, the company’s breakthrough heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology platform. While Exos M delivers unprecedented storage, these are currently for large-scale data centre deployments, but as is often the case for these things, it won’t be long before we see them in the consumer market.

Key Features

  • Adopted by Cloud Service Providers: Seagate is currently ramping Exos M to volume shipments on capacity points up to 32 TB with a leading cloud service provider. Separately, Seagate is also sampling drives on the Exos M platform of up to 36 TB.
  • Mozaic 3+ and HAMR Innovation: Based on Seagate’s Mozaic 3+ technology platform, the industry’s first implementation of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), Exos M offers data center operators significant scale, total cost of ownership (TCO), and sustainability advantages, including 300% more storage capacity within the same data center footprint, a 25% cost reduction per terabyte and 60% reduction in power consumption per terabyte.
  • Unrivalled Areal Density: Exos M, powered by HAMR-based Mozaic 3+ platform, now delivers capacity points up to 36 TB through a highly efficient 10-platter product design. Seagate is the only data storage company that can achieve areal densities of 3.6 TB per hard drive platter today, with a pathway to increasing per-platter capacity to 10 TB.

Dell Technologies

Infrastructure solutions provider Dell Technologies is among the first customers to adopt Mozaic 3+ and will soon integrate Exos M 32 TB into their high-density storage systems.

“As customers build out their AI factories, they need cost-efficient, scalable and flexible storage engineered to reliably handle the most demanding AI workloads,” said Travis Vigil, SVP, ISG Product Management. “Dell PowerScale with Seagate’s HAMR-enabled Mozaic 3+ technology plays a crucial role in supporting AI use cases like retrieval augmented generation (RAG), inferencing and agentic workflows. Together, Dell Technologies and Seagate are setting the standard for industry-leading AI storage innovation.”

What Seagate Had to Say

“We’re in the midst of a seismic shift in the way data is stored and managed,” said Dave Mosley, Seagate CEO. “Unprecedented levels of data creation – due to continued cloud expansion and early AI adoption – demand long-term data retention and access to ensure trustworthy data-driven outcomes. From capturing training checkpoints to archiving source-data sets, the more data organizations retain, the more they can validate that their applications are acting as they expect them to – and adjust course as needed.”

“Seagate continues to lead in areal density, sampling drives on the Exos M platform of up to 36 TB today. Also, we’re executing on our innovation roadmap, having now successfully demonstrated capacities of over 6 TB per disk within our test lab environments.”

“As the world’s leading producer of exabytes, and the only manufacturer capable of manufacturing 3.6 TB per platter hard drives at scale, Seagate is laser-focused on delivering the storage scale required for the applications of the future,” Mosley added.

IDC

“As businesses and people everywhere continue to use AI applications, more widespread adoption of AI is creating unprecedented amounts of data. All this data needs to be replicated and retained for the long term,” said Kuba Stolarski, Research Vice President for service provider infrastructure with analyst firm IDC. “Our research shows that hard drives continue to be a critical technology for delivering this scale, with 89% of data stored in the data centers of leading cloud service providers stored via hard drive. We believe Seagate’s progress in areal density innovation positions them well to address increased demand for data storage.”

Peter Donnell

As a child in my 40's, I spend my day combining my love of music and movies with a life-long passion for gaming, from arcade classics and retro consoles to the latest high-end PC and console games. So it's no wonder I write about tech and test the latest hardware while I enjoy my hobbies!

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