Western Digital makes fast and fat portable hard drives for gamers
Western Digital today announced five external drives for gamers. The new WD_Black brand comprises four disk drives, including two Xbox-specific offerings, and one SSD.
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Exagrid, Broadcom, Lite-On, Toshiba and more
A sprinkling of storage news briefs to start the week.
Exagrid refresh deduplicates deduplicated files
Target deduplicating backup appliance supplier...
It’s a Hard Drive gonna fail: HDD failure rates revealed
Cloud storage service supplier Backblaze has revealed the annualised failure rates for its installed hard disk drives and Seagate is the worst performing manufacturer.
Western Digital upgrades NVMe SSDs, recruits composable allies
Western Digital has refreshed its NVMe SSD, composability and storage server products.
The company has added 96-layer 3D NAND data centre drives, almost quadrupling...
Seagate spins scads of cash from slowing disk drive business
Seagate successfully squeezed out cash from its disk drive business in its latest quarter despite long-term revenue decline, and with little or no help from enterprise arrays...
Torrid end to torrid year for Western Digital
It's been a hard year for Western Digital but things look like getting better.
Western Digital’s fourth fiscal 2019 quarter saw depressed revenues and...
Dropbox loves shingled disk drives
Dropbox has used shingled magnetic recording (SMR) hard drives in its data centres for a year now and today has let the world know how it is...
Western Digital tunes up ActiveScale object storage arrays
Western Digital has updated its ActiveScale object storage arrays, adding larger disks and a faster operating system.
WD sells two ActiveScale systems, the entry-level...
Introducing Enmotus, micro-tiering and server speed-up
Two-tier hierarchical sub-file management can accelerate slow capacity storage to fast performance storage speeds and speed up servers on the cheap.
This is what...
Traditional file and block storage vendors are toast – Minio
Storage software supplier Minio reckons that the public cloud and fast object storage will 'squeeze the life out of traditional file and block storage suppliers'.