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 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.

Seagate is exclusively adopting HAMR technology with its new 36TB Exos M HDD, moving away from CMR and SMR. This results in a 25% reduction in cost per TB, which is critical to maintaining the capacity-to-price ratio that keeps HDDs still relevant in an industry where SSDs offer faster speeds and are increasingly cheaper.