Seagate announced its upcoming 'Mozaic 3+' hard drive platform that uses heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology to achieve unprecedented areal density and capacity. The platform consists of four key components: a superlattice platinum-alloy media, a plasmonic writer, a gen 7 spintronic reader, and a 12nm integrated controller. These components work together to store data bits at density levels that were previously inconceivable, while maintaining thermal and magnetic stability, data integrity, and compatibility with existing systems.
The Mozaic 3+ platform powers Seagate’s flagship Exos 30TB+ product family, which offers industry-leading capacity points of 30TB and beyond. The Exos 30TB+ hard drives are designed for enterprise data centers that need to scale their infrastructure to store more exabytes in the same space, power, and budget. Seagate announced that it has started shipping 30TB hard drives based on the Mozaic 3+ platform to select customers, and expects to ramp up to full production by the end of March 2024. The pricing and availability of the Exos 30TB+ hard drives for the general market have not been disclosed yet, but Seagate claims that they will offer a lower total cost of ownership than competing solutions.
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Trend Themes
1. Heat-assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) Technology - Seagate's Mozaic 3+ platform utilizes HAMR technology to achieve unprecedented areal density and capacity.
2. Superlattice Platinum-alloy Media - The Mozaic 3+ platform incorporates superlattice platinum-alloy media to enable storage of data bits at previously inconceivable density levels.
3. Gen 7 Spintronic Reader - Seagate's Mozaic 3+ platform features a gen 7 spintronic reader, enhancing the storage and retrieval capabilities of the hard drives.
Industry Implications
1. Data Storage - The ultra high-capacity hard drives present disruptive innovation opportunities in the data storage industry.
2. Enterprise Data Centers - Seagate's Exos 30TB+ hard drives cater to the needs of enterprise data centers, enabling them to scale their infrastructure and store more data.
3. Technology Manufacturing - The development and production of components like superlattice platinum-alloy media and gen 7 spintronic readers offer disruptive innovation opportunities in the technology manufacturing sector.