Seagate prototypes achieve 7TB per platter, the highest density for HDD researchTen-platter drives enable experimental HDDs ...

Western Digital (WD) has introduced new datacenter hard drives that deliver the lowest power consumption of any high-capacity 3.5-inch hard drive available today. The WD Re+ hard drive family is the ...

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Why it matters: Seagate claims to have the first 16TB 3.5-inch hard drive. The mass-storage device is intended for use in data centers and is currently still in testing. It uses the company's ...

The largest difference between 2.5 and 3.5 inch hard drives is their size. Two and a half inch hard drives aren't just narrower. They're also shorter and thinner, which makes them popular for laptop ...

Over the last few months, I have been running both of my NAS appliances with purpose-built drives. One NAS has a set of WD Reds and the other has the Seagate NAS solution. While each of these drives ...

Hard disk drives are experiencing renewed market pressure, with pricing trends pointing toward a potential supply crunch in the coming years. Industry reports indicate that HDD prices rose by around 4 ...

The 2022 IEEE TMRC meeting gave interesting insights into the future of magnetic recording, particularly hard disk drive (HDD) recording. In this article I will look at past and future roadmaps for ...

The Seagate Backup Plus Hub delivers a big bang for buck. Performance is very good for a USB hard drive, and you’d be hard put to find this kind of capacity elsewhere. So why on earth, in this day of ...

Hard disk makers are in a big of a struggle for survival. As SSDs grow in capacity and shrink in price, hard disk makers are losing business on the low end. Only the cheapest of laptops don’t have a ...

Anyone who had been around PCs for long will remember the days when drive capacity was measured in megabytes and people thought that they would never use that much space. Then drives were in gigabytes ...