Seagate has released a 10 TB hard drive for home use.

Previously, drives of this size were made only for servers.

Modern content is more and more voracious, and if you are lucky enough to own a Blu-Ray movie collection, FLAC music, or simply prefer all the games from the Steam library to be installed and ready for battle at any time, then in your PC most likely, the “array” of two or three HDDs is already spinning, and the system and software modestly huddling on the SSD is demanding high performance.

This morning, Seagate released an official press release in which it introduced the new product to the general public: a 10-terabyte hard drive from the Barracuda, IronWolf and SkyHawk families for home desktop systems. In the beginning of January on Geektimes it was writtenabout server helium HDD produced by the same Seagate and now, after a little more than six months, a drive of similar size also became available to the average consumer.


Summary table for all four updated Seagate lines // Source extremetech

The new drives, unlike the server model, do not use helium. HDD is working on one of the new technologies SMR, "tiled magnetic recording" (shingled magnetic recording). SMR allows you to write more data to the surface without increasing the size of the disk or reducing the sector. This is achieved by “compacting” the tracks on the disc: when using SMR, there is almost no clearance between the tracks on the surface of the disc, i.e. the data is written “closely”, in contrast to the classic HDD, in which the “tracks” are located at some distance from each other.

The new “Barracuda Pro” will be available at a price of 535 US dollars. The cost of the updated HDD other, more interesting series of "IronWolf" and "SkyHawk", is not reported.