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Seagate HAMRs out a roadmap for future hard drive recording tech

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Re: Should be interesting

A failure of the heating element would make it read only so long as it noticed that and didn't try to write anyway - otherwise the attempted write might change some of the data but not all and corrupt what you have.

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