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.

Launch of 36TB Exos M happens a month after a new 32TB model emerged Seagate is now comfortably ahead of arch-rival Western Digital For the first time, 10TB-per-platter technology has also been mentioned Seagate added a 36TB Exos M model to its growing family of datacenter hard disk drives,

However, Seagate is not yet releasing the Exos M 36 TByte to the retail market. Samples will first be sent to data center operators for qualification and evaluation. The situation

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 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, one of the leading players in the storage segment, has launched a 36TB HDD, its largest capacity to date. The new product in the Exos M series comes shortly after breaking its previous record.