Laser heating generates a temperature gradient in the MnPt layer, which induces spin currents (green arrows) that are injected into the FePt layer. These spin currents generate spin torque, which ...

Thailand’s Board of Investment has approved a new Western Digital R&D investment valued at about $64.95 million, aimed at strengthening the country’s role in next-generation hard disk drive ...

Data growth is estimated to double between 2022 and 2026 and with that growth in data the amount of data retained is increasing. Although NAND flash memory-based SSDs are growing in importance for ...

We've covered Seagate's HAMR, or Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording, tech for HDDs, which is set to breathe new life into traditional platter-based storage by dramatically increasing the potential ...

The Board of Investment (BoI) has approved a 2.3-billion-baht research and development project on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology for Western Digital's Thai unit, Western Digital ...

We've been following Seagate's HAMR or Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording storage tech for a while now, with this new take on the traditional HDD created to deliver customers the highest capacity and ...

The fate of an industry is riding on a laser smaller than a grain of salt. Data-storage company Seagate developed this diminutive heat source to help it encode information in ever-greater quantities ...

Research groups have made a breakthrough in the field of hard disk drives (HDD) by demonstrating the feasibility of multi-level recording using a three-dimensional magnetic recording medium to store ...

Toshiba has demoed 32TB (terabyte) and 31TB hard disk drives (HDD) that use heat- and microwave-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR and MAMR) plus shingled drive tracks to boost capacity over existing ...