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Seagate unveils 36TB HAMR hard drive: Mozaic 3+ extended

Seagate has the industry's highest-capacity HDD.

Seagateon Tuesday stated that its Exos M hard drives, based on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology(with capacity points of up to 32TB) has been adopted by a leading cloud service provider, and its production is now ramping up. Since large cloud service providers (CSPs) are familiar with how to efficiently manage SMR HDDs, it is not surprising that Seagate's partner preferred the higher-capacity shingled drives over CMR-based 30TB offerings. "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.

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