Hardware Toshiba starts shipping SMR MAMR enterprise hard drives offering up to 34TB of storage Toshiba's newest HDDs are bigger and more efficient at handling data center workloads By Alfonso Maruccia, April 3, 2026, 1:57 PM 8 comments
Industry US opens Cold War plutonium stockpile to jump-start next-gen nuclear reactors The Energy Department is offering 19 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium to companies pursuing advanced nuclear fuel By Skye Jacobs, October 24, 2025, 4:07 PM 15 comments
Hardware Electronics WD unveils new high-capacity 32TB SMR and 26TB CMR disk drives Company slides 11th platter into standard HDD form factor By Daniel Sims, October 17, 2024, 10:51 PM
Hardware Western Digital is now sampling 32TB SMR-based hard drives Capacity-wise, WD should now be on par with rival HDD maker Seagate By Alfonso Maruccia, August 5, 2024, 2:15 PM 8 comments
Microsoft AI Microsoft is looking for a modular nuclear reactor expert to power data centers The company will need a lot of nuclear energy for its IA training and cloud services By Alfonso Maruccia, September 25, 2023, 1:56 PM
Industry Tech Culture The first small modular nuclear reactor has been approved for use in the US Sustainable energy or an expensive risk? By Rob Thubron, January 23, 2023, 5:19 AM 22 comments
Hardware Seagate becomes first to ship massive 8TB hard drive By Shawn Knight, August 26, 2014, 11:30 AM 38 comments
Hardware LaCie's new external drive line-up is equipped with 5TB Seagate drives By Shawn Knight, February 21, 2014, 10:45 AM 9 comments
Hardware Seagate's Shingled Magnetic Recording to bring 5 TB HDDs in 2014 By Tim Schiesser, September 9, 2013, 9:30 AM 17 comments