In a recent investor call, Seagate mentioned that it is developing a 20TB hard drive for consumers. This would make a storage more typical of a datacenter and cloud service, end up reaching common users,
This high consumer storage capacity is made possible by assisted magnetic recording technology that Seagate has been working on for years. In numerous statements they have shown their technological advances to present hard drives of increasingly high capacity and density, with a view to having 100 TB in a hard drive in the next decade.
20 TB of home storage thanks to Segate
Seagate's new 20TB HDD would be available to the general public and will not be limited to professionals and businesses alone. High-capacity hard drives are in high demand, said Seagate CEO David Mosley.
For a consumer PC or NAS, drives using linked HAMR technology are ideal because it allows you to not have to worry about storage unlike an SSD. Seagate's new PMR hard drives use perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) and two-dimensional magnetic storage (DMS). For the latter, a unique read head that reads data from the disk silently allows for better data density.
Lastly, Mach.2 technology from the same brand is in great demand for high-capacity hard drives. Mosley says dual-action hard drives will soon become popular with users, and he also believes the technology will gain popularity as drives larger than 30 terabytes reach the home market. There is no planned release date for now, but Seagate estimates date these high-capacity hard drives for a market launch in 2023, without specifying whether they are professional or home.
Source: Guru3D
