During its latest earnings call, Seagate's Chief Executive Office, Steve Luczo has revealed some details regarding the future of HDDs and teased that Seagate might move from current highest 3.5-inch HDD capacity of 6TB up to 8 and 10TB very soon.


According to details revealed to investors during the earnings call, Steve noted that these HDDs might come next year but will also be available in limited quantities due to longer lead time.

"I just don’t see those price erosions sustaining themselves, given the capacity points that we have to deliver over the next year," Steve Luczo said in a response to an analysts question during the earnings call. "Going from 6 to 8 to 10 terabytes, that’s a lot of technical investment as you know, it’s also a lot of test investment. As you get to the 6 and the 8 and the 10TB drives, the lead time on those drives is going to be pretty significant whether or not that’s wafer-related or whether or not that’s test related," he added.

Unfortunately, Steve Luczo did not shed any light regarding the actual details on how Seagate plans to increase the data density of 3.5-inch HDDs but all things point to recent Seagate's work with heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology.

In any case, it looks like standard mechanical HDDs will still remain the best option on the market, at least when it comes to capacity.

Source: Bit-Tech.com.