Enterprise SSDs cost ten times more than nearline disk drives
Nearline drives remain the sweet spot in the HDD market - and a key reason is that the 10x price premium that enterprise SSDs command remains stubbornly high and...
WD and Seagate in 18TB disk drive drag race
Western Digital was late to market with 16TB Ultrastar nearline disk drives, gifting Seagate an opportunity for its 16TB Exos drives. The arch-rivals are now in a...
Western Digital’s ePMR is stopgap HDD technology
Seagate began shipping 16TB Exos nearline drives in June last year, before Western Digital had even announced its own 16TB drive tech. It took another eleven months for WD...
Western Digital loves flash more than hard drives
Western Digital is generating more revenue from flash and SSDs than from disk drives. Does this show that WD is losing out big time to Seagate in the key enterprise...
Factory outage torpedoes Toshiba disk drive shipments
Toshiba disk drive shipments fell by half in the second 2020 quarter - an outage at its Philippines disk manufacturing plant is thought to be to blame.
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How does HPE Storage see the world? Let’s find out
We asked HPE to summarise its data storage product positioning to help us prep a recent interview with HPE Storage boss Tom Black.
In addition, we emailed the company some...
Nearline drives are Seagate’s money-making machine
Hyperscalers and enterprise data centres helped Seagate grow revenues in its Q4, despite a pandemic-related drop in demand in several market areas.
Revenues climbed 6.3 per cent year-on-year to $2.52bn...
WD Gold 16TB and 18TB hard drives hit the streets
Western Digital has officially taken the wraps off 16TB and 18TB Gold enterprise-class hard drives. The company is also making Ultrastar 16TB and 18TB versions more widely available...
Pure pushes past IBM for top three place in all-flash array market
Pure Storage has overtaken IBM for the third slot in Gartner's revenue league table for the first quarter. Dell EMC and NetApp maintain first and second places and IBM...
Digital media kids at OpenDrives show off new fast NAS system
OpenDrives, which provides video post production NAS systems, has been in the spotlight this week after releasing new customizable enterprise products in the form of three new NAS...