Data storage necessities have kept increasing over the last several years. While SSDs have taken over the primary drive performance in most computing systems, hard drives continue to be the storage media of selection in areas trading with a large amount of relatively cold data. Hard drives are also fit for workloads that are mostly regular and not display sensitive. The $/GB metric for SSDs (unusually with QLC in the image) shows a downward course, but it is not low enough to match HDDs in that market section. Since the release of the last HDD model (coinciding with Seagate‘s launch of the Ironwolf Pro and Exos 18TB drives introduction ), we have seen the availability of high-capacity drives growing. The Exos series, which offers compelling price points, no longer suggests that at the 18TB capacity point, though lower capacities continue to provide good money value.
