Western Digital begins sampling 28 TB UltraSMR hard drives
Employing a hella lot of advanced recording technologies to keep the HDD business going
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Seagate says mass production of HAMR hard drives is coming, starting at 30TB
In a nutshell: Seagate has started shipping its first HAMR hard disks for data center solutions, bringing the novel storage technology a step closer to mass production and consumer sales. However, traditional PMR and SMR-based recording technologies are not completely obsolete yet.
Western Digital hopes to release HAMR drives within the next 1.5 years
A 50 TB WD Blue could be coming soon
Seagate's mass-produced HAMR hard drives to debut at 32TB, followed by 40TB
Company plans to release 28TB and 32TB HDDs later this year
Bigger Than Godzilla: Why Are Games Using So Many Gigabytes?
Do all the latest big budget games need 100+ GB of drive space? What exactly is the average size of a triple-A game today? We've investigated the figures in search of the truth.
Recommended game storage over the last 15 years
Study finds that when HDDs fail, it's typically within 3 years of operation
HDDs don't have long lives
Seagate reduces carbon footprint with refurbished storage drives
Refurbishing and reusing drives contributes less to emissions than recycling them
Seagate unveils new 22TB IronWolf Pro hard drive at NAB conference
Its direct rival is Western Digital's Red Pro 22TB drive
Free up space and identify big files with WizTree
WizTree scans your storage drives in real time and lets you visualize how your files and folders are structured and which files are taking the most space. WizTree is great for identifying big apps or files you can delete to recover space on your storage drive.
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Recent report claims Seagate and Hitachi HDDs are most likely to fail
In context: While the popularity of SSDs continues to increase, some users still prefer to have a trusted hard drive for their affordable costs and high storage capacities. However, a recent study shows buyers may not always pick the most reliable HDDs.
Western Digital unveils a 44TB external HDD with a flagship graphics card price
When 22TB simply isn't enough
Smaller capacity hard drives are more susceptible to failure as they age, study finds
Backblaze tested 230,921 HDDs consisting of 29 models from manufacturers like Seagate, Toshiba, and others
Seagate: 30TB second-generation HAMR hard disks are almost here
Mass production for larger-than-life HDDs is expected to start this year
The first 5MB hard drive weighed approximately...
5MB of storage provided the ability to keep 2.5 million pages of typed text
Hard drive shipments nearly halved in 2022
Why it matters: A recent report from Trendfocus shows SSD sales continue to rise dramatically, while HDD manufacturers are noticing record-breaking declines in overall shipments. Analysts estimate that shipments declined by more than 40 percent compared to 2021.
Hard drives are expected to reach a penny per gigabyte by mid-2025
A penny for your thoughts, or a gigabyte of storage?
Liquid cooling makes high density storage more reliable, study shows
Fully submersing hard drives cools better and puts less strain on the drive's moving parts
The Best SSDs and PC Storage - Holidays 2022
Fast storage is now a commodity, and hopefully it will only get bigger and faster. Our best storage picks are split into six categories covering SSDs, HDDs, portable and external drives.
Seagate claims Mach.2-enabled Exos 2X18 is the world's fastest hard disk
Forward-looking: The new Exos 2X18 hard drives improve on the already impressive specs of the Exos 2X14 units. Using the Mach.2 multi-actuator solution, the 2X18 brings the humble magnetic storage technology closer to sequential data rates only seen in SATA SSD drives.
Tech companies destroy millions of reusable storage devices every year
Companies fear data leakage, but experts say wiping data is safe
Backblaze data shows SSDs have lower failure rates than HDDs
The big picture: A key selling point of solid state drives is that they are less failure-prone than HDDs. However, data from recent years began to cast doubt on that assumption, but at least one new long-term analysis shows this might prove correct as time marches on.
New optical disc tech could make $5 per TB possible
A new era for data hoarders and archivers?
SSDs might cause double the CO2 emissions of HDDs
Most emissions come from initial manufacture
Hard drive shipments drop by a third year over year
The consumer market saw the highest decline