Seagate alluded to a 20TB consumer hard drive during a recent earnings call transcript, Tom's Hardware noticed. The storage manufacturer is working on heat-assisted magnetic recording. 

The new 20TB HDD would be made available to the entire public. Strong-capacity HDDs are in high demand, says CEO David Mosley. For a consumer PC or NAS, the linked hamr drives are ideal. The new pmr hard drives use perpendicular magnetic recording (pmr) and two-dimensional magnetic storage (DMS) (tdmr). For the latter, an unique read head that reads data from the disk quietly allows for better data density. Finally, the same brand's innovative Mach.2 technology is in high demand for high-capacity HDDs. Mosley claims that double-acting hard drives are soon becoming popular. He believes the technology will gain popularity as drives larger than 30 terabytes hit the market. Previously, it was estimated that the hamr discs would be widely released in 2023.

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