Currently Seagate reached 10 TB, but Seagate believes they will squish even more into the space and has pledged to keep the pressure up on rivals like HGST,who continue to squeeze more and more data onto the traditional magnetic platters.
Seagate is getting the extra capacity through the use of helium,which makes the drives more able to cope with staying on track to the platter.
After releasing its 10TB BarraCuda Pro Hard Drive, last year as part of its Guardian Series that's targeted at home use, Seagate
is now planning to release a 16TB HDD next year. The company is
expected to launch its high-capacity hard disk drive within the next 18
months.
The 16TB drive will be a standard 3.5-inch SATA drive and
will be Helium-filled much like some of the other drives released by
Seagate itself and Western Digital in last two years,Apart from the 16TB drive, the company is also testing a 12TB drive,
the company's CEO Stephen Luczo told to Geek.com. Luczo says that the
initial response to the drive has been positive.
As per the
report, there is a third Seagate 14TB drive in works as well. Just like
the 16TB drive, the 12TB and 14TB hard drives will also be filled with
Helium. Helium is used to reduce drag and friction between the spinning
hard drive platters and the read/write heads that float above them,
allowing for denser platters and lower power consumption.
The
10TB hard drive, which was released last year by Seagate, was priced at
$535 (roughly Rs. 36,350) by the company and therefore the price of
16TB HDD will, in all likelihood, be higher. However, we will have to
wait for the official announcement by the company for specific details
about pricing as well as availability.
Even though prices for SSDs
have come down considerably in last few years, there are still users
who prefer hard disk drives and are likely to rejoice the high-capacity
storage drive when it is finally announced by Seagate.
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