Seagate starts shipping enormous 22TB hard drives to “some customers”

Seagate starts shipping enormous 22TB hard drives to “some customers”

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/seagate-starts-shipping-enormous-22tb-hard-drives-to-some-customers/

While NVMe SSDs focus on getting faster, good old spinning hard drives are intent on getting larger. Tom's Hardware reports that hard drive manufacturer Seagate announced on a recent earnings call that it is shipping huge, 22TB hard drives to some of its customers. The company uses shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology to squeeze a couple more terabytes out of its biggest drives.

Seagate starts shipping enormous 22TB hard drives to “some customers”

Jan 28, 2022, 10:30pm UTC
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/seagate-starts-shipping-enormous-22tb-hard-drives-to-some-customers/ > While NVMe SSDs focus on getting faster, good old spinning hard drives are intent on getting larger. Tom's Hardware reports that hard drive manufacturer Seagate announced on a recent earnings call that it is shipping huge, 22TB hard drives to some of its customers. The company uses shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology to squeeze a couple more terabytes out of its biggest drives.