Storage articles

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.

Modders give the new Raspberry Pi 500 keyboard PC an NVMe storage upgrade

Samsung is prepping 400-layer V-NAND for future 16TB SSD storage and PCIe 5.0 performance

WD unwraps the holidays with new high-performance PCIe Gen 4x4 SSDs starting under $60

Phison steals Micron's PCIe 5 SSD crown after just one day with a 122TB drive

Micron unveils world's first PCIe 5.0 60TB SSD for AI workloads and cloud storage

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

Another day, another SSD deal: Samsung 990 Evo 1TB drops to $69

Grab 2TB of uber-fast SSD storage from Samsung or Corsair for only $149

Samsung 990 Evo Plus SSD debuts to positive reviews

Samsung speeds up development of a new breed of memory that combines RAM and SSD properties

Forward-looking: Samsung is working to accelerate the development of a promising new memory technology called Selector-Only Memory. The latest tech combines the non-volatility of flash storage and DRAM's lightning-fast read/write speeds, making it a potential game-changer. Furthermore, manufacturers can stack the chips for higher densities.

New optical storage breakthrough could make CDs relevant again

Scientists unlock a faster, cheaper way to store data on DNA

Raspberry Pi launches NVMe M.2 SSDs starting at $30

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

Gigabyte add-on card brings Thunderbolt 5 to existing desktop PCs

Forward-looking: Thunderbolt 5 doubles Thunderbolt 4's bandwidth, offering 80Gbps transfer speeds in either direction. However, Thunderbolt 5's alternate mode can transmit at 120Gbps while receiving data at 40Gbps upon detecting certain devices. The extra boost currently only supports cable lengths up to two meters.

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

Windows 11 24H2 is causing headaches, BSODs for some Western Digital SSD owners

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.

Windows 11's latest update doubles file copying speeds with support for ReFS format

Samsung launches 990 Evo Plus NVMe SSDs with enhanced speed and thermal performance

Which company invented the hard disk drive?

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

Faster and cheaper SSDs may be coming as Samsung's 280-layer QLC NAND hits mass production

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.