Seagate is the only data storage company that can achieve areal densities of 3.6TB per hard drive platter today, with a pathway to increasing per-platter capacity to 10TB.

Seagate Technology Holdings plc STX has announced the shipment of Exos M hard drive samples to select customers, with capacities of up to 36 terabytes (TB). Using the innovative Mozaic 3+ platform, which features heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology,

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

Seagate started shipping hard drives with HAMR tech in December 2024, turning a long-awaited technological advancement into a commercial reality. Now, the storage specialist is announcing

Seagate announced that they are shipping 36TB HAMR evaluation drives to customers. A study shows AI will drive demand for storage solutions, such as these.

Seagate Technology will begin shipping samples of its Exos M hard drive from today (January 21). Based on the company’s heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology, Mozaic 3+, the hard drives have a capacity of up to 36TB, supporting 10 platters each with a 3.6TB capacity.

Seagate has launched a hard drive with capacities of up to 36TB, expanding the Mozaic 3+ Platform. Takeaway Points Seagate has launched a hard drive capacity of up to 36TB. Dell Technologies is one of the first customers to adopt Mozaic 3+ and will soon integrate Exos M 32TB into their high-density storage systems.