Seagate solidifies HDD market top spot as areal density growth stalls
Seagate has consolidated its place at the top of the global HDD supplier rankings against a backdrop of stagnating disk drive areal density.
Data from TrendForce and Tom Coughlin’s Digital...
Just two weeks after launch, storage-based cryptocurrency Chiacoin drives up disk prices
Never mind the GPUs used for process-intensive mining of Bitcoin, new cryptocoin Chia is driving up hard disk drive prices by its own processing needs, which are based on...
I always feel like somebody’s watching me: WD releases higher-rated Pro version of Purple...
Western Digital has launched a Pro version of its Purple surveillance system drive with a longer warranty and enhanced workload rating.
The aim is to support the more powerful video...
High Danger of Defect: Machine learning model predicts potential disk failures in Google’s DCs
Google has devised a machine learning (ML) model that predicts disk failures with 98 per cent accuracy. The idea is to reduce data recovery work when disks actually fail.
According...
Toshiba upgrades shingled surveillance disk drive
The world's third largest disk drive supplier, Toshiba, has upgraded its S300 surveillance disk drive with shingled 4TB and 6TB products, increasing maximum capacity by 50 per cent.
Shingled disk...
Your occasional storage digest with SoftIron, StorageOS, NAKIVO and more
The common factors in this week’s storage news round-up are the two mainstays: Kubernetes and the public cloud. Kubernetes storage and protection products are getting enhanced and the rush...
Backblaze discovers old truth: SSDs break less often than disks
Cloud backup and storage provider Backblaze has added SSD reliability stats to its longstanding disk drive reliability numbers and, what do you know? SSDs break almost an order of...
Another storage-as-a-service competitor enters the ring: Dell launches APEX
Dell today unveiled its APEX Data Storage Services at its virtual Dell Technologies World event, claiming to offer a consistent service across edge locations, private and public clouds, with...
Western Digital suffers data centre gloom, dip in revenues, but client devices save...
Disk and solid state drive maker Western Digital’s $4.1bn revenues declined 1 per cent year-on-year in its third fiscal 2021 quarter, ended April 2, as its data centre business...
StorFaster? Quantum converges StorNext metadata controllers onto faster storage server
Quantum has introduced StorNext H4000, a more powerful hybrid flash/disk appliance that does away with the need for separate metadata controllers and client access nodes by using faster controllers.
StorNext...
Your occasional storage digest with Veritas, Seagate, and Tintri
This week's storage digest
Seagate pats itself on back for flat Q3 results
Seagate reported flat Q3 revenues of $2.73bn (up 0.4 per cent) and $329m net income, advancing 2.8 per cent The disk drive maker said it sold more...