A magnetic recording medium such as a magnetic disk includes a NiP or
ceramic glass substrate on which a seedlayer is sputtered in a low
pressure inert gas atmosphere, the seedlayer comprising a ternary or
quaternary alloy formed from a B2 lattice type alloy such as NiAl, CoTi,
CoAl, NiTi, FeTi, CoFe, CoHf, CuZn, CoZr, and MnAl. For quaternary alloys
in which elements X and Y are added to the B2 type alloy, X can be chosen
from one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni,
Fe, Cu, V, Mn, and Zn, and Y can be chosen from one or more elements
selected from the group consisting of Al, Nb, Ta, Hf, Zr, Zn, Ag, Au, Pt
and Pd. The resulting seedlayer preferably has an A2 lattice structure.
