Reaching up to 32TB

Western Digital has announced that it has started shipping the world's highest capacity UltraSMR HDDs, reaching 32TB, and coming with energy-assisted PMR (ePMR) recording technology for hyperscalers, CSPs, and enterprises. In addition, the company is also shipping the world's highest-capacity ePMR CMR HDD with up to 26 TB for enterprise and channel customers.

Using Seagate AgileArray technology

Seagate has announced the 24TB version of its IronWolf Pro HDD aimed at multi-user commercial and enterprise RAID storage solutions. Featuring Seagate's own AgileArray technology, the IronWolf Pro HDD series is made to deliver 24/7 performance, reliability, and dependability.

I need you to burn

Seagate has revealed the industry's first hard disk drive that uses heat to write data. 

Power will set the tone

A Pure Storage exec is predicting that no more hard disk drives will be sold after 2028 because of electricity costs and availability and NAND $/TB declines.

Some are more reliable than others

While most of the world only uses HDs for long term data storage tasks, some of them might not be fit for the purpose.

Study concludes that it is not just how you use it

A new report claims that when it comes to drive stability and avoiding failure -- the bigger the better.

20TB HDDs using less power

Western Digital has released its first dual actuator hard disk drive (HDD).

Higher capacity increased performance

Seagate has quietly expanded its family of dual-actuator Exos Mach.2 hard drives.

There is just so much wrong with this deal 

A 30TB external SSD being sold for just $31.40 on China-based online shopping site AliExpress and listed on Walmart's website for just $39 has so many things wrong with it, it is amazing that two big retailers fell for it.

Too slow for Windows 11

A recent executive brief from data storage industry analyst firm Trendfocus reports that OEMs have disclosed that Microsoft is pushing them to drop HDDs as the primary storage device in pre-built Windows 11 PCs.