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MAMR Breakthrough Exceeds Expectations
Breakthroughs delivering the reliability, manufacturability and affordability to address customer demands. “We broke conventional wisdom to break theoretical limits.” — Brendan Collins Both HAMR and MAMR present their own challenges. HAMR has reliability issues due to the extreme heat utilized in the process and requires several complex and costly changes to drive infrastructure, among other […]
October 11, 2017 • 2 min read Data
The Need for Energy-assisted Recording Technology
Providing energy-assistance with heat-assisted and microwave-assisted magnetic recording technologies. “MAMR has significant advantages over HAMR in the quest to bring lower cost, high-reliability storage to the data center.” Brendan Collins To expand capacities even further requires that the write head size be reduced, as well as the size of the magnetic grains that store bit […]
October 11, 2017 • 5 min read Data