Seagate announced shipments of Exos M hard drive
samples to select customers in industry-leading capacities up to 36
terabytes (TB). 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 center
deployments.
Key Takeaways
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Adopted by Cloud Service Providers: 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. -
Mozaic 3+ and HAMR Innovation: Based on Seagate’s Mozaic
3+ technology platform, the industry’s first implementation of
heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), Exos M offers data center
operators significant scale, total cost of ownership (TCO), and
sustainability advantages, including 300% more storage capacity within
the same data center footprint, a 25% cost reduction per terabyte and
60% reduction in power consumption per terabyte.1 -
Unrivalled Areal Density: Exos M, powered by HAMR-based Mozaic 3+
platform, now delivers capacity points up to 36TB through a highly
efficient 10-platter 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.
Quotes
Dell Technologies:
Infrastructure solutions provider Dell Technologies is among the
first customers to adopt Mozaic 3+ 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.”
Seagate:
“We’re in the midst of a seismic shift in the way data is stored
and managed,” said Dave Mosley, Seagate CEO. “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 today. Also, we’re 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.
IDC:
“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. “Our research shows that
hard drives continue to be a critical technology for delivering this
scale, with 89% of data stored in the data centers of leading cloud
service providers stored via hard drive. We believe Seagate’s progress
in areal density innovation positions them well to address increased
demand for data storage.”
