The capacity of the biggest available hard drives is 10 TB at the moment. Despite their price tag these are ideal drives for those that want to use a single hard drive in their system, or want to fully utilize a NAS with a limited amount of bays. In this article we take a closer look at the new Seagate IronWolf Pro 10 TB.

Last year we saw the introduction of the first 10 TB hard drives, about a year-and-a-half after we welcomed the first 8 TB-models. At the moment the first 12 TB drives (HGST, Seagate) have been announced, but these have not yet entered our test lab. Meanwhile, the number of available 10 TB drives is slowly increasing. Aside from the 10 TB Gold, WD also released 10 TB-versions of their Purple, Red and Red Pro. The sister company of WD, HGST, is also releasing disks with this capacity. The purple drives are meant for use in combination with security cameras while the red drives are meant for use in a NAS. Gold on the other hand is meant for the server market.