30 TB drives coming soon?

[Etorix]

Irrespective whether such drives will come as soon as announced, the article is a helpful summary of the various technologies and acronyms.

Destination 30 TB: HDD Vendors Plan Different Routes to Hit Storage Milestone in 2023

www.anandtech.com

And if you lament having only two or three suppliers for NAS HDDs (WD, Seagate, and Toshiba), consider that they all source their platters from a grand total of ONE manufacturer (Showa Denko).

 

[quantum8]

Crazy how it all rests on that one manufacturer. We'd probably see a a crisis equal or larger than the chip supply shortage if that ever happened.