https://wccftech.com/toshibas-future-plans-involve-26-tb-hdds-this-year-40-tb-beyond-2025/

Toshiba announced this week the company's bold outlook for the following five years in respect to their hard disk drive lines. The company anticipates a higher increase in its HDDs utilizing nearline applications. Toshiba plans to embrace next-gen recording technology while expanding the number of platters for each new HDD. Their first new venture is to reveal a 26 T.B. drive before the fiscal end of 2022. By 2027, the company will introduce HDDs with capacities of 40+ T.B.

Toshiba has a few options that the company could have chosen to improve the capacity levels of their hard drives. The first option is to use platters with higher areal recording density. A second option is to install more platters into an HDD. Currently, Toshiba offers an 18TB HDD that offers nine aluminum platters using flux-control microwave-assisted magnetic recording technology or FC-MAMR.