Best Buy is offering a 26TB Seagate desktop hard drive for $249.99, the lowest price per TB this year at under $10, making it an excellent option for long-term storage compared to SSDs due to cost and capacity advantages.
Seagate has launched the world's largest hard drive, the Exos X Mozaic 3+, boasting 30TB of storage with new technology that allows for 1.742 TB per square inch. The company claims it will be cheaper than existing models, estimated at around $15 per Terabyte, making it a bargain for those in need of massive storage. It also offers improved efficiency with a 12-nanometer integrated controller. Creating 1 Petabyte of storage with this drive would cost approximately $14,000 and could store 30,000 Blu-ray movies.
The 22 TB WD Red Pro NAS SATA HDD, designed for NAS and server use, is currently on sale on Amazon with a 23% discount, bringing the price down from $599.99 to $459.99. This mechanical hard drive features a 512 MB cache, a 7200 RPM rotational speed, and a 300 TB/year workload rate. It also includes technologies such as 3D Active Balance Plus and NASware 3.0 for increased reliability and error recovery. The WD Red Pro lineup has received positive reviews and comes with a 5-year limited warranty.