Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording, or better known as HAMR, is a digital data recording technology that has been tried to be developed since 1954 to use heat to increase the amount of digital storage that can be contained in a hard drive.
This technology has been developed for a long time by Seagate, and last year, it showed off its Mozaic 3+ storage platform last year, which simply allows them to fit more storage on each layer of the hard drive.
Recently, Seagate has introduced their latest hard drive offering called the Seagate Exos M which comes with storage options of 30TB and 32TB. At the moment, the data read and write speeds have not been announced yet, but it comes with the same size and connection as a regular hard drive using a SATA III connection and a 3.5-inch design like other hard drives.
The previously launched Seagate Exos X hard drive comes with a different interface that makes it difficult to use in many existing computers and data centers.
The hard drive is also reported to come with a MTBF (mean time before failure) value of 2.5 million hours and shows 45 percent lower power consumption for every 1TB of data read and written.
The storage speed of the Seagate Exos M is not shown but it is likely to still be around 600MB/s. This is quite suitable for use in data centers that need a large amount of storage, but at a cost that is not too expensive and does not require access to it all the time.