Seagate this week confirmed that it had received revenue for Corvault systems based on hard drives that rely on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology marking the start of commercial shipments of those types of HDDs. But while the HAMR HDD era has officially begun, hard drives based on perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) and using shingled magnetic recording (SMR) will continue to exist on the market for years to come.
"We shipped our first HAMR-based Corvault system for revenue as planned during the June quarter," said Gianluca Romano, chief financial officer or Seagate, at the earnings call (via SeekingAlpha). "We expect broader availability of these Corvault systems by the end of calendar 2023."
