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Seagate announces select shipments of Exos M hard drive with 36TB capacity
Seagate Technology announced shipments of Exos M hard drive samples to select customers in industry-leading capacities up to 36 terabytes . Based on Mozaic 3 +, the company ’ s breakthrough heat-assisted magnetic recording , HAMR technology platform , Exos M delivers unprecedented storage scale for large-scale data centre deployments . product design . 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 .
“ We are in the midst of a seismic shift in the way data is stored and managed ,” said Dave Mosley , Seagate CEO .
Seagate is currently ramping Exos M to volume shipments on capacity points up to 32TB with a leading cloud service provider . Separately , Seagate is also sampling drives on the Exos M platform of up to 36TB .
Based on Seagate ’ s Mozaic 3 + technology platform , the industry ’ s first implementation of heat-assisted magnetic recording , Exos M offers data centre operators significant scale , total cost of ownership , and sustainability advantages , including 300 % more storage capacity within the same data centre footprint , a 25 % cost reduction per terabyte and 60 % reduction in power consumption per terabyte .
Exos M , powered by HAMR-based Mozaic3 + platform , now delivers capacity points up to 36TB through a highly efficient 10-platter
“ 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 36TB . Also , we are executing on our innovation roadmap , having now successfully demonstrated capacities of over 6TB per disk within our test lab environments .”
“ As the world ’ s leading producer of exabytes , and the only manufacturer capable of manufacturing 3.6TB per platter hard drives at scale , Seagate is laser-focused on delivering the storage scale required for the applications of the future ,” Mosley added .
Infrastructure solutions provider Dell Technologies is among the first customers to adopt Mozaic3 + and will soon integrate Exos M 32TB 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 .
“ 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 . p
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