Seagate's roadmap includes 14TB, 16TB hard drives within 18 months
Found on PC World on Friday, 27 January 2017
Seagate's hard drive capacity today tops out at 10TB. A 12TB drive based on helium technology is being tested, and the feedback is positive, said Stephen Luczo, the company's CEO.
Hard drives are popular among computer owners who want more storage capacity than most SSDs can provide. In data centers, large-capacity drives are replacing tape storage to preserve data.
Such large drives only make sense in arrays where the RAID level guarantees that at least two drives can fail without causing data loss. Arrays build with drives of these sizes have long recovery times, and the restore process puts additional load onto the remaining disks so another failure is more likely to happen.