HAMR technology uses a small laser diode attached to each recording head to heat a tiny spot on the disk. This localized heating temporarily reduces the coercivity of the recording material ...

HAMR, or heat-assisted magnetic recording ... identical material resources and maintaining a '10 platters and 20 heads' approach. This article may contain affiliate links that Microsoft and ...

These work with the classic recording method (conventionell magnetic recording, CMR), but apply additional energy to the write head ... could already build HAMR drives with 40 TByte today.

Founded in 1991, Intevac is a producer of thin-film process technology which is used to create the read/write heads of hard disk drives (HDDs). The company’s 200 Lean system is used in the production ...