Seagate Smashes Largest HDD World Record With 36TB Hard Drive And Reveals A 60TB Model Is Coming
techradar, Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
It took the world's largest HDD vendor only one month to add 4TB to its previous biggest HDD
Seagate added a 36TB Exos M model to its growing family of datacenter hard disk drives, making it the largest hard disk drive currently available. The yet-to-be-named device is based on the company's mature Mozaic 3+ platform and has been shipped to select customers, most likely hyperscalers like Microsoft or AWS.
The US storage company added a 32TB Exos M in December 2024, almost a year after it added its previous largest drive, a 30TB model. Rival Western Digital has a 32TB HDD in its line up but unlike Seagate, uses 11 platters (rather than 10) to reach this capacity. The same goes for Toshiba; the Japanese firm tested 31TB and 32TB models with 10 and 11 platters.