Hard drive density advances face diminishing returns — 30TB+ drives gain just 6.6% capacity with SMR: Report
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Blocks & Files studies SMR and PMR HDDs at high capacities, comparing PMR HDDs to their slightly higher-capacity SMR cousins. However, the trend of improvement drops off sharply once a certain TB threshold is reached, potentially due to recording technology.