“Where can I buy a hard drive with more than 10TB for a desktop computer?”

Um, online?

A basic search will show you that there are numerous commercially available HDDs in the 10TB-15TB range, with 20TB drives out fairly soon.

Here are some preconfigured Google searches — just click the size you’re looking for:

• 16TB drives
• 15TB drives
• 14TB drives
• 13TB drives
• 12TB drives
• 11TB drives

However, these high-capacity drives are really meant for heavy-duty applications such as service in a data center drive rack; the drives are correspondingly robust and expensive. For example, a 16TB Seagate Exos or Ironwolf HDD costs around $500.

Unless you have specific need for a data-rack drive, you’ll probably do better — and at far lower cost — by using several smaller, lower-cost drives together, instead of one giant drive.

For example, it’s easy to find 5TB external drives for well under $100. Three of those, connected to your PC by a USB hub, will give you a full 15TB of local storage, but at a cost 40% less than a single, massive, data-center-quality drive of similar capacity.

Your money, your call.

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