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I would not risk 36TB of data on a single drive let alone a Seagate. Never had a good experience with them.
Ignoring the Seagate part, which makes sense... Is there a reason with 36TB?
I recall IT people losing their minds when we hit the 1TB, when the average hard drive was like 80GB.
So this growth seems right.
It's so consistent it has a name: Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
I heard that we were at the theoretical limit but apparently there's been a break through: https://phys.org/news/2020-09-bits-atom.html
Quick note, HDD storage is not using transistors to store the data, so is not really directly related to Moore's law. SSDs do use transistors/nano structures (NAND) for storage and it's storage capacity is more related to Moore's law.