Seagate breaks largest HDD world record with 36TB hard drive and reveals 60TB model on the way


  • The launch of the 36TB Exos M comes a month after a new 32TB model came to market
  • Seagate is now well ahead of arch-rival Western Digital
  • The technology of 10 TB per dish is also mentioned for the first time

Seagate has added a 36TB Exos M model to its growing family of data center hard drives, making it the ultimate solution largest hard drive currently available. The yet-to-be-named device is based on the company’s mature Mozaic 3+ platform and has been shipping to select customers, most likely hyperscalers like Microsoft or AWS.

The American storage company added a 32TB Exos M last monthalmost a year after it added its previous largest drive, a 30TB model. Rival Western Digital has a 32TB hard drive in its lineup, but unlike Seagate, it uses 11 platters (instead of 10) to achieve this capacity. The same goes for Toshiba; the Japanese company tested 31TB and 32TB models with 10 and 11 dishes.