Laser-heated storage ships at scale toward 100-TB drives

Claim

Seagate began shipping the first heat-assisted magnetic recording drives at scale, using laser-heated nanoscale spots to write denser bits on a path from four terabytes per disk toward 100-TB-class drives, while Aptera rolled its first solar electric vehicle off an assembly line.

Reported metric: 100 TB class

Reporting date: 2026-03-08 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to March 8, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)