Seagate Mozaic Drives Secure Broadcom HBA Approval, Simplifying High-Capacity Storage for AI Infrastructure

Seagate Mozaic Achieves Critical Interoperability Milestone

Seagate Technology reached a significant interoperability milestone designed to address the escalating storage demands driven by AI infrastructure and cloud workloads1

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. Seagate Mozaic drives, built on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology and configured with shingled magnetic recording (SMR), became the first and only SMR drives added to Broadcom's approved vendor list for its host bus adapter (HBA)1

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. This approval enables data centers to deploy and manage large fleets of hard drives more efficiently, connecting servers to storage infrastructure at scale.

Microsoft Azure Validates Technology at Hyperscale

Microsoft Azure Storage completed qualification of the Broadcom host bus adapter with Seagate HAMR and SMR technology, providing real-world validation for the configuration at hyperscale deployment2

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. Pablo Ziperovich, general manager of Azure Memory and Storage Center of Excellence at Microsoft, emphasized that storage infrastructure must meet demanding requirements for interoperability, manageability and infrastructure efficiency at scale1

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. According to Ziperovich, Microsoft Azure's joint validation and qualification of Seagate Technology and Broadcom's SMR configuration demonstrates how these technologies can work together across large-scale data centers, enabling greater storage density at a similar cost and power envelope2

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Addressing AI-Driven Storage Growth Demands

AI and cloud workloads are driving continued data growth, increasing the need for scalable storage solutions that can expand efficiently1

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. For large-scale data centers, this means not only adding higher-capacity drives, but efficiently connecting, managing and scaling large hard drive fleets. Jason Feist, Senior Vice President of Cloud Business at Seagate, stated that high-capacity storage innovation delivers the greatest value when customers put that capacity to work efficiently2

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. By pairing Seagate HAMR and SMR storage technology with Broadcom's connectivity infrastructure, the companies are making high-capacity SMR storage more accessible and easier to deploy as AI-driven storage growth and cloud data demands accelerate1

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Broadcom HBA Expands High-Capacity Storage Access

Broadcom's HBA provides the communication path between servers and storage devices, allowing large numbers of hard drives to be connected, addressed and managed by the host system2

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. Jas Tremblay, Vice President and General Manager of Data Center Solutions Group at Broadcom, noted that expanding HBA support for Seagate SMR technology gives more customers a straightforward path to integrate and manage high-capacity hard drive fleets1

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. Tremblay described this as an important step toward making HAMR and SMR storage easier to implement across large-scale environments as storage requirements continue to grow2

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Mozaic Platform Advances Storage Density

Seagate's Mozaic platform leverages HAMR technology and enables continued increases in storage density and drive capacity1

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. HAMR-based Mozaic drives can also be configured with SMR technology, which organizes data tracks more densely to increase usable capacity for appropriate workloads2

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. This combination positions the technology to address data-intensive workloads while maintaining efficiency in power consumption and cost. As AI infrastructure demands continue expanding, the approval signals growing industry alignment around scalable storage solutions that can support hyperscale deployment requirements across cloud workloads and data centers1

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