Previously, drives of this size were made only for servers.

Modern content is more and more voracious, and if you are lucky enough to own a Blu-Ray movie collection, FLAC music, or simply prefer all the games from the Steam library to be installed and ready to “fight” at any time, then in your PC case most of the time, the “array” of two or three HDDs is already spinning, and the system and software modestly huddling on the SSD is demanding.
This morning, Seagate released an
official press release in which it presented to the general public its new product: a 10-terabyte hard drive from the Barracuda, IronWolf and SkyHawk families for home desktop systems. At the beginning of January
, Geektimes wrote about a server helium HDD produced by the same Seagate, and now, after a little more than six months, a drive of similar size also became available to the average consumer.
Summary table for all four updated Seagate lines // Source extremetech')
The new drives, unlike the server model, do not use helium. HDD is working on one of the new technologies SMR,
"tiled magnetic recording» (shingled magnetic recording). SMR allows you to write more data to the surface without increasing the size of the disk or reducing the sector. This is achieved by “sealing” the tracks on the disc: when using SMR, there is almost no clearance between the tracks on the surface of the disc, i.e. data is written “closely”, unlike classic HDDs, in which the “tracks” are located at some distance from each other.
New "Barracuda Pro" will be available at a price of
535 US dollars . The cost of the updated HDD other, more interesting series of "IronWolf" and "SkyHawk", is not reported.