- Seagate quietly introduces its largest-capacity hard drive into regular retail circulation
- The 32TB hard drive is now sold outside of controlled corporate distribution channels.
- Japan is the first confirmed retail market for Seagate's 32TB hard drives.
32 TB Seagate The hard drive appeared in Japanese retailers – without any prior public announcement from the company.
The model, designated ST32000NT000, has been registered and listed at retailers in Akihabara, confirming its availability from December 27, 2025.
With a list price of 138,160 yen (about US$887), the drive is both the highest-capacity consumer hard drive available and one of the most expensive NAS-specific hard drives. hard drives currently sold in stores.
Seagate's Largest Hard Drive Goes to Retail
This observation represents the first confirmed instance of a 32TB hard drive being offered directly to retail rather than through controlled corporate supply chains.
The ST32000NT000 is part of Seagate's IronWolf Pro line, designed for continuous operation in professional and enterprise NAS environments.
This distinguishes it from the company's Exos series, which has historically been used to represent the highest capacity drives.
Seagate introduced Exos 30TB model almost two years old and followed 32TB Exos M drive about a year later.
The IronWolf Pro brand envisions a shift toward delivering maximum power beyond data center-only product lines.
Technically, the drive meets standard design parameters for 3.5-inch high-capacity hard drives.
It uses a SATA 6 Gb/s interface and runs at 7200 RPM with support for 512 MB cache.
Seagate claims a maximum sustained data transfer rate of 285 MB/s and an average power consumption of 8.3 watts.
These characteristics are closely related to existing high-performance NAS driveswhich indicates that the main gain here is storage density rather than pure performance gains.
Restrained adoption and premium pricing imply limited availability and a narrow target audience.
This release looks less like a broad consumer push and more like a cautious expansion of high-density storage systems in NAS-oriented product levels.
Seagate has likely moved its maximum capacity mechanical storage system into standard sales channels without accompanying marketing or technical briefings.
Whether this device will be available for purchase outside of Japan remains to be seen – we'll keep an eye on that in the future.
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