Hyperscalers and enterprises will finally be able to buy 30TB hard drives in “early 2024”, Dave Mosley, the CEO of Seagate has confirmed in its first quarter fiscal 2024 earnings report. If confirmed, it would be the largest hard drive ever but would still lag the largest SSD in terms of capacity; the Solidigm D5-P5336 has a 61.44TB capacity.In a transcript obtained by the Motley Fool, Mosley confirmed that Seagate is likely to begin aggressively ramping 3TB per disk products based on HAMR technology in early calendar 2024. 3TB refers to the platter capacity and Seagate packs ten of these in a hard drive. Furthermore, he added that these drives will delivery storage capacity beyond 30TB – meaning that Seagate plans to pack more platters per drive or use higher density platters – and will come in either CMR or SMR configurations. Mosley hinted at a 32TB drive further down during a Q&A session an… Click below to read the full story from TechRadar
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