New 30TB tape is a welcome hold-my-beer moment for Petabyte-scale storage as Seagate and Western Digital smash HDD capacity barrier

New 30TB tape is a welcome hold-my-beer moment for Petabyte-scale storage as Seagate and Western Digital smash HDD capacity barrier

‘When I want to do it, how I want to do it’ seems to be LTO’s motto as 10th generation tape goes live with a whimper

New 30TB tape is a welcome hold-my-beer moment for Petabyte-scale storage as Seagate and Western Digital smash HDD capacity barrier - WorldNL Magazine

10th generation LTO is finally here, four years after 9th gen launchedIt will have a 30TB capacity, far less than the 48TB originally plannedLTO roadmap runs to 576TB which may not appear until 2040 at the current rateIf you want to back up tens of petabytes of data or even more, here’s some good news for you. Without much fanfare, IBM, Symply and Spectral Logic have separately made LTO-10 announcements in the past 48 hours.Announced in 2014, LT…

Western Digital still plans to start shipping 36TB HAMR hard drives in 2027

At Computex 2025, Western Digital confirmed plans to begin mass production of HAMR-based hard drives in 2027, starting with 36TB, 40TB, and 44TB models.