People might take hard drives for granted these days. After all, their use of moving parts makes them less suited for mobile devices and their bulky sizes give off an "old school" vibe. Hard disks and ...

Seagate is already on its second generation of HAMR hard drives. A single platter holds 4 TByte, or 4.4 with SMR recording.

I feel like I'm the only person over here buying WD Golds for my NAS instead of WD Reds. Rather than admit fault and undo what they've done, they release a blog post ...

SMR technology offers higher density, lower prices and performance Seagate has announced its first drive based on shingled magnetic recording (SMR), a new technology that could give mechanical drives ...

SSDs are increasingly popular these days, but there's still plenty of demand for large spinning disks in the enterprise sector and still some home users who prefer sheer capacity to raw speed when ...

Multiple hard drive manufacturers were caught shipping SMR drives to consumers, but only Western Digital put them in its NAS product line. That decision has won the company a class action lawsuit.

Storage vendors, including but reportedly not limited to Western Digital, have quietly begun shipping SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) disks in place of earlier CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) ...

Dropbox on Tuesday gave an update on its progress since deploying Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drive technology a year ago. The company said SMR drives have added hundreds of petabytes of new ...

While most computer users usually prefer using SSD storage, Toshiba is announcing its brand new HDD offering. The new storage will be a 3.5-inch P300 Desktop PC Hard Drive. According to the story by ...

Dropbox said Tuesday that it's expanding the capacity of its Magic Pocket infrastructure project with the mass deployment of Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drive technology. The Magic Pocket ...