Why is the new Seagate Exos M HAMR 30TB Hard Drives a Class 1 Laser Product?

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The New Exos M 30TB HAMR Drive is a Class 1 Laser product, but why? I deep dive into the engineering and physics of the newly released Seagate HAMR (Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording) drives, starting with the Exos M Mozaic 3+ 30Tb CMR disk. But its not just Seagate that are working on this, Western Digital and Toshiba are also investing in EAMR (HAMR and MAMR) for their disks, but how reliable is the technology going to be? Lets go deep into the challenges, the solutions and how it works at the atomic level, its fascinating! Exos 30TB CMR/HAMR Drive Now Released : https://amzn.to/4pqxrv1 28TB CMR/HAMR Drive : https://amzn.to/3IUpfCT AFR Overview and Analysis of failure rates on 10+TB Disks : https://youtu.be/IgJ6YolLxYE Seagate vs Western Digital, who makes the best drives? : https://youtu.be/icNbexYV3M4 Enterprise vs Desktop drives? Do desktop drives fail sooner? : https://youtu.be/l_YqdVGcC0o If you would like to, you can support me at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sometechguy 0:00 Intro 1:18 How current disks works 2:18 Current limitations 3:34 The path to HAMR 6:29 The Challenges of HAMR 8:04 How the challenges are solved? 10:53 What is coming and when?