Seagate to launch world’s first high-capacity HDDs based on HAMR technology [Video]

Forward-looking: Heat-assisted magnetic recording is a technological breakthrough that has been decades in the making. The first patent describing a method for using heat to record data through a magnetic field dates back to 1954. Seagate began researching “modern” HAMR hard drives in the 1990s. Now, the American manufacturer is finally shipping its first commercially available HAMR hard drives.

Seagate introduced its Mozaic 3+ platform earlier this year, announcing that the world’s first heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) hard disk drives were on the horizon. The company has now launched a dedicated product page for the new drives, though customers cannot purchase them just yet. Pricing remains a mystery as well, though it’s expected to be steep – likely enough to make many data hoarders wince.

According to Seagate, 90 percent of the components used to build Exos M …