Seagate targets 100TB hard drives by 2030 to meet AI storage demands

Holy TB: Training and managing complex AI models requires not only significant computing power but also vast fleets of capable storage devices. Seagate plans to build a new AI-focused business around this need, developing new disk drives with unprecedented storage capacities in the not-so-distant future. Seagate expects to launch a 100-terabyte hard disk drive by 2030, anticipating that AI companies will require such massive storage for their increasingly complex chatbots and generative AI services. According to B.S. Teh, who oversees Seagate's global commercial strategy development and operations, there will soon be considerable demand for extremely large drives based on proven magnetic storage technology. Currently, Seagate's largest hard drive is the 36TB Exos M model, introduced earlier this year. The company has recently invested heavily in advancing HDD-based solutions to keep increasing storage capacity. Seagate is a major proponent of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), ... Read full article.