Seagate quietly launched joint world’s largest HDD with a 32TB capacity, but it uses a controversial technology

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  • ST32000NM003K is part of the Exos M range and uses SMR which is more complex to run and manage
  • Reveal comes weeks after Western Digital launched its own 32TB HDD
  • And almost a year after Seagate debuted its next-largest drive, a 30TB model

Seagate has launched its largest-ever hard drive, a 32TB model in the Exos M series, just weeks after Western Digital unveiled its own 32TB HDD.

The new Exos M is available in two capacities, a 30TB, model ST30000NM004K, which uses Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR), and a 32TB, model ST32000NM003K, which uses Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR). The latter’s overlapped write tracks are the reason for the increased capacity and WD’s drive employs the same recording technology.

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