- Seagate is quietly placing its highest capacity hard drive into normal retail circulation
- A 32TB hard drive is now sold outside controlled corporate distribution channels
- Japan became the first confirmed market for retail sales of Seagate 32TB hard drives
A 32TB Seagate hard drive has appeared in Japanese retail channels – without any prior public announcement from the company.
Designated ST32000NT000, the model was spotted and listed by dealers in Akihabara, confirming its availability from December 27, 2025.
With a list price of 138,160 yen (about $887), the drive is both the highest capacity consumer hard drive available and one of the most expensive NAS-oriented HDDs currently sold through retail stores.
Seagate’s largest hard drive moves into retail
This sighting represents the first confirmed case of a 32TB hard drive being offered directly at retail rather than through controlled corporate supply chains.
The ST32000NT000 belongs to Seagate’s IronWolf Pro series, which is designed for continuous operation in professional and enterprise NAS environments.
This sets it apart from the company’s Exos range, which has historically been used to introduce its largest capacity drives.
Seagate introduced a 30TB Exos model nearly two years ago and followed with a 32TB Exos M drive about a year later.
The IronWolf Pro branding suggests a shift towards making extreme capacity available outside of strictly data center-focused product lines.
Technically, the drive follows well-known design parameters for high-capacity 3.5-inch hard drives.
It uses a SATA 6Gb/s interface and runs at a rotational speed of 7,200 RPM, supported by a 512MB cache.
Seagate claims a maximum sustained transfer rate of 285 MB/s with an average operating power consumption of 8.3 watts.
These characteristics closely match existing high-capacity NAS drives, indicating that the primary advance here is storage density rather than raw performance gains.
The muted rollout and premium pricing means limited availability and a narrow target audience.
This release feels less like a broad consumer push and more like a cautious expansion of high-density storage into NAS-focused product tiers.
Seagate likely moved its highest capacity mechanical storage into standard sales channels without accompanying marketing or technical briefings.
Whether or not this device will be available for purchase outside of Japan remains to be seen – we’ll keep an eye out going forward.
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