One More Play for PMR and SMRVarious energy assisted magnetic recording methods, such as HAMR, will be used for next generations of hard drives for years to come. These 22 TB and 24 TB Seagate Exos drives will likely be drop-in compatible with existing cloud datacenter hardware as well as infrastructure, and should not require extensive validation and certification procedures, unlike brand-new HAMR HDDs. In which case Seagate would be able to hit drive sizes even larger than 50 TB