Seagate's top-tier HDDs will have more capacity. The company will launch 22TB and 24TB HDDs on its latest platform in the first or second quarter. Later in the year, Seagate will release the first ha... Seagate will release 22TB and 24TB hard disk drives, and in Q3, HAMR HDD with 30TB or more
That New HAMR tech looks to be Mighty impressive stuff. With a laser heating up the disc surface to just the right temperature so the magnetic heads can write on it..
Zapping the oxide to squeeze more data into it. What happens when things go wrong and you want to recover some data?
It still can be recover watch this and it explains why there a laser Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) As Fast As Possible - YouTube
I think his point is that recovery time from a backup would be very slow. Better hope you do incremental backups because it would take the better part of a whole day to fill this drive.