Hard drive articles

Western Digital bets on ceramic nanolayer tech for ultra-durable storage

Seagate targets 100TB hard drives by 2030 to meet AI storage demands

Buffalo Japan is selling a transparent hard disk drive for its 50th anniversary

Synology to require branded hard drives for future NAS models

Western Digital and Microsoft launch HDD recycling program to recover rare earths from e-waste

Resourceful modder turns an old HDD into a dirt cheap disc sander

Google's Colossus internal storage system still relies on HDDs for storing most of its data

Surprisingly, 87% of people back up their data, but data loss accidents persist

Bottom line: To commemorate World Backup Day on March 31 – just one day before April Fool's Day – Western Digital commissioned a survey of 6,118 people across 10 countries, conducted a month ago, to better understand their backup practices. The findings revealed that 87 percent of respondents do back up their data, either manually or automatically. Their main motivations include fear of losing important files (83 percent), the need to free up device space (67 percent), and protection against cyber threats (42 percent).

Samsung SSD Magician utility gets a makeover, improves ease of use

Seagate begins work on NVMe HDDs for cost-effective AI workloads

Seagate hard drive scammers figure out how to compromise FARM metrics

Western Digital exits SSD market, shifts focus to hard drives as SanDisk takes over NAND operations

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Seagate HDD fraud also includes IronWolf Pro lineup, more details uncovered

Western Digital targets 100TB disk drives with HAMR and HDMR advancements

Used Seagate drives sold as new traced back to crypto mining farms

A hot potato: A widespread scandal involving used Seagate hard drives fraudulently sold as new has continued to escalate, with new evidence suggesting that the drives originated from Chinese cryptocurrency mining farms. The drives, many of which had logged 15,000 to 50,000 hours of prior use, were reportedly altered to appear unused before re-entering the retail supply chain.

Seagate to launch world's first high-capacity HDDs based on HAMR technology

Forward-looking: Heat-assisted magnetic recording is a technological breakthrough that has been decades in the making. The first patent describing a method for using heat to record data through a magnetic field dates back to 1954. Seagate began researching "modern" HAMR hard drives in the 1990s. Now, the American manufacturer is finally shipping its first commercially available HAMR hard drives.

Huawei sidesteps US sanctions with new MED storage that fuses SSD and tape

WinDirStat helps you monitor disk space, gets major update after 19 years

WD unveils new high-capacity 32TB SMR and 26TB CMR disk drives

60TB hard drives set to arrive by 2028, industry forecast predicts

Forward-looking: Going from today's 30TB to 60TB in just four years would be a heck of an increase after HDD capacity growth stalled for a while. However, that's exactly what the new International Roadmap for Devices and Systems Mass Data Storage report by IEEE is predicting. The roadmap calls for 60TB hard disk drives to hit the market in 2028.

MSI bundles free SATA HDD with barebones PC kits, but it should have been an SSD

Microsoft gets smart about HDD recycling with robots that extract valuable metals

The music industry's latest problem: Archive hard drives from the 90s are failing

TL;DR: The music industry is grappling with a looming crisis regarding its archive of 90s recordings stored on aging hard drives. According to data storage experts at Iron Mountain, around 20 percent of drives from the era are now unreadable. The company is raising concerns that, due to deteriorating formats, insufficient metadata, and increasing disk failures, a significant portion of these historic recordings could be lost forever if urgent action is not taken.