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It’s HAMR time for WD as it outlines drive migration plans

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Western Digital revealed its HAMR disk technology migration plans in an Investor Day session and already has HAMR drives undergoing qualification by customers. The Investor Day session was held to...

Sputtering Seagate, storage giant wants to buy Intevac

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Seagate plans on spending $119 million to buy Intevac, a maker of sputtering tools used to coat disk drive platters with thin films. Intevac’s 200 Lean machine applies thin films,...

A VAST effort: Data estate vectorization and storage for the AI era

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All data storage companies are having to respond to the wave of generative AI and intelligent agents interrogating an organization’s data estate, be it block, file, or object, and...

Backblaze reveals best and worst disk drives with 2024 failure rate stats

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Backup and cloud storage supplier Backblaze has released its quarterly disk drive stats report.  The company had 301,120 hard drives used to store data as of the end of last...

VDURA talks up energy-efficient HPC systems for utilities

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VDURA, a specialist in HPC data infrastructure and management solutions, is to highlight its next generation data platform at the 18th annual Energy High Performance Computing (HPC) Conference later...

Sony quits recordable Blu-ray disc market

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February will see Sony end the production of recordable Blu-ray discs, with no replacement for business users. In a recent statement, Sony Storage Media Solutions said recording Blu-ray disc media,...

Western Digital’s disk-driven quarter spins revenues higher

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A 41 percent year-on-year disk-based revenue rise for Western Digital’s second fiscal 2025 quarter kept it ahead of Seagate in the disk drive market and sets the scene for...

Storage news ticker – January 24

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Observability and data management supplier Apica announced a Freemium version of its Ascent offering, providing free access to an enterprise-grade telemetry pipeline and intelligent observability, processing up to 1 TB/month...

Hitachi Vantara CTO Jason Hardy on the company’s storage refresh

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Interview. Blocks & Files sat down with Jason Hardy, Hitachi Vantara Vice President and CTO for AI, to discuss the company's ongoing storage strategy refresh and how it's unifying...

Seagate hitting HAMR makeover hard as forecast disappoints

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Cloud providers purchased more high-capacity disk drives in Q4 2024, pushing Seagate revenues up nearly 50 percent. Seagate revenues rose to $2.33 billion in its second fiscal 2025 quarter, which...

GenAI, LLMs, and agents are transforming storage

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Analysis: GenAI is washing through the IT world like water flooding across a landscape when a dam breaches. It is being viewed by many suppliers as an epoch-changing event,...

Seagate sampling 36 TB HAMR disk drive

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Seagate is pushing out its capacity leadership position on Toshiba and Western Digital by sampling an Exos M 36 TB disk drive using its HAMR technology, currently the highest...