Seagate's 12TB hard drives bring massive storage to desktop PCs and NAS boxes

There's a new giant in the world of huge hard drives. On Thursday, Seagate announced 12TB versions of its BarraCuda Pro and IronWolf hard drives for consumers--the largest capacity ever unleashed on the masses. These aren't the first-ever 12TB hard drives. Enterprise-level drives already support those capacities. The consumer drives lack some of the advanced (and pricey) reliability features found in the enterprise drive, but the 12TB BarraCuda Pro is still no slouch. The 3.5-inch drive spins at...