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Tom’s Hardware
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Jowi Morales

Toshiba demonstrates 30TB+ HDDs using HAMR and MAMR technologies — customer sampling scheduled for 2025

Toshiba hard drive with more than 30TB capacity.

Toshiba just demonstrated its first drives that can store more than 30TB using HAMR (Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording) and MAMR (Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording) technologies — proof that there are still ways hard disk technology can compete against more modern solid-state drives. 

The company achieved 32TB on a drive that used the former, while it managed to get 31TB with the latter. Toshiba issued a press release detailing this achievement and mentioned a planned test deployment of the drive next year.

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