After decades of talk, Seagate seems ready to actually drop the HAMR hard drives
Briefly

"HAMR works on the principle that, when heated, a disk's magnetic materials can hold more data in smaller spaces, allowing for greater overall data capacity on the drive."
"Getting from a physics concept to an actual drive involved adding a laser diode to the drive head, optical steering, firmware alterations, and 'a million other little things that engineers spent countless hours developing.'"
Read at Ars Technica
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