Seagate announced it has been actively shipping 16TB helium-based enterprise drives as part of the Exos® X16 family, delivering high performance and record capacity for hyperscale data centers to eff... Seagate releases Exos and IronWolf 16TB Hard Drive
Interesting...what does "workloads up to 300TB/year" actually mean? Works out to less than a TB per day, which isn't exactly pushing it...
With 5 year warranty and "300TB/year", then I guess 1500TB written before you can see any sign of failure or something
Whats amazing is the density is higher the platters are the same or less but the prices never go down.
hdd pricing is at "stable" pricing for maker well at least until SSD pricing can give similar pricing at similar capacity, dont think they will change hdd pricing