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> Or a third of a billion 24 TB drives, which is one of the larger sizes currently available.

For the record, 44TB drives have been announced in March 2026:

* https://www.seagate.com/ca/en/stories/articles/seagate-deliv...



SSDs have outclassed hard drives in density for a while now. Kioxia claims their LC9 is over 245TB in capacity, announced July 2025.


How much does one 245T LC9 cost, and much much do (245T÷44T=5.5=) six Seagates cost?

I have a bunch of NVMe enclosures that generate 750W of heat when going full blast, and 600W when completely idle. How heat does the equivalent number of HDDs generate when working/idle?




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