Scientists are continuously looking for a way to improve the storage capacity on hard drives, but they might need to be ...

It's been many years since hard drives were relevant for cutting-edge storage performance, but Western Digital's new High Bandwidth HDD design could be the fastest hard drives yet. I'll always ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. For several years I have written a series of articles outlining my projections for various digital storage and non-volatile memory ...

Both hard drives and solid-state drives are fairly reliable, but both will also eventually fail, as all storage devices do.

As cloud computing, AI and data-intensive workloads accelerate, demand for scalable, cost-efficient storage continues to rise. Despite the buzz around flash, HDDs remain the backbone of hyperscale ...

Toshiba has introduced its M12 Series HDDs, employing SMR technology for enhanced storage capacities of 30 to 34 TB, aimed at hyperscale and cloud service providers. The drives, designed for 24/7 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Covering Digital Storage Technology & Market. IEEE President in 2024 There has been a fair amount of coverage in the last couple ...

Western Digital (WD), the world's largest hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturer, announced plans to invest US$1 billion in Japan over the next five years to strengthen next-generation HDD technology and ...

Why it matters: The verified 12-disk stacking technology represents an important move by Toshiba to stay competitive in the cloud and enterprise storage markets. In hyperscale data centers, where cost ...