Seagate Wants to Ship 100TB HDDs by 2025

Seagate wants to help you build your own Library of Alexandria–or maybe just store your entire Steam library locally. According to a company roadmap published by Hexus, the company plans to introduce 50TB hard drives “early next decade,” with HDDs boasting capacities up to 100TB expected to arrive sometime around 2025.

Those future high-capacity HDDs would be made using Seagate’s Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) technology. Or at least HAMR would be used to establish the foundation–the proposed 100TB drives would have to combine the technology with bit-patterned media to create the Heated-Dot Magnetic Recording (HDMR) technology that promises to enable even greater storage density at the cost of a much-less-catchy acronym.

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