Seagate has officially launched the first ever 30TB hard disk drive - the Exos X Mozaic 3+ - and the largest yet and the good news is, despite the fact that it will initially be targeting hyperscalers and enterprise markets, the drive will be sold to end users and will be readable without specialist hardware.
According to BS Teh, the company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, who I interviewed ahead of the launch, the US-based storage behemoth achieved this landmark by using a number of ground-breaking, in-house technologies that allowed it to cram more TB per platter.
