http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/sea...r-by-2023.html

  • Manufacturability: Built over 40,000 HAMR drives; pilot volume in 2018, volume shipments of 20TB+ drives in 2019; drives are built on the same automated assembly line as current products
  • Capacity: Achieved 2 Tbpsi areal density; 30% annual density growth on HAMR over past nine years
  • Reliability: Tests proved single-head data transfers of over 2PB, exceeds real-world specifications
  • Simplicity: HAMR is transparent to host; passed customer testing using standard code
  • Cost: Supply chain fully established and ready to launch; projected cost-per-TB path beats legacy PMR technology