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Fujitsu Stakes Future of Hard Drive on HAMR
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Extreme TECH
 
By Extreme TECH
Published on November 29, 2006
 
On Tuesday, hard drive and peripheral maker Fujitsu announced it had developed a multi-layer optical element for a new storage technology known as heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). 
 
Considered by many to be the future of hard drive storage, HAMR is a technology that magnetically records data on high-stability media using laser thermal assistance—or, as it's also commonly known: heat.

Fujitsu's highly efficient optical elements for hard disk drive
Many believe this technology will significantly extend the capacity of modern magnetic disc drives, eventually allowing more and more bits of information to be crammed into them.

As Joel Hagberg, vice president of marketing and business development for Fujitsu points out, because heating and cooling is paramount to HAMR, Fujitsu successfully developed highly efficient optical elements that can be incorporated into the hard disk drive during the manufacturing process.

"From an advanced development standpoint, Fujitsu has worked on a lot of technologies," said Hagberg.

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