StorageOS reinvents VSAN for containers
StorageOS, a UK startup, has released version 2 of its eponymous software, which effectively reinvents virtual SANs for containers.
Alex Chircop, CEO, said StorageOS 2 delivers production grade storage in...
Strong flash performance underpins Western Digital Q3
Western Digital revenues climbed 14 per cent on the back of record flash memory performance to $4.18bn in the third fiscal 2020 quarter ended April 3. The company generated...
Toshiba publishes list of consumer HDDs that use shingled magnetic recording
Toshiba has revealed which of its desktop-type drives use SMR (shingled magnetic recording) technology, with its potential for slower performance due to continuous random writes.
Some users have complained that...
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Kioxia America
Kioxia America has added snapshots and clones to its KumoScale all-flash storage system.
It has done this by including Kubernetes CSI-compliant snapshots and clones to the KumoScale NVMe-over Fabrics-based...
Western Digital begins mending fences in WD Red NAS drive SMR spat
Western Digital has heralded a positive shift in its approach to users of shingled WD Red NAS drives, via a short statement on the company blog.
As described in our...
WFH economy fuelled ‘strong, accelerated’ demand from cloud, hyperscale, says Seagate as nearline disk...
Seemingly driven by the remote work trend of the past few months , Seagate revenues rose strongly in its latest quarter, fuelled by demand for high-capacity drives from public...
Western Digital implies WD Red NAS SMR drive users are responsible for overuse problems
Western Digital published a blog earlier this week that suggests users who are experiencing problems with their WD Red NAS SMR drives may be over-using the devices. The unsigned...
SMR in disk drives: PC vendors also need to be transparent
Western Digital late last week issued a statement in response to the revelation of the company's undocumented use of SMR (Shingled Magnetic Media recording) in 2TB and 6TB...
Toshiba desktop disk drives have shingles too
Toshiba told Blocks & Files yesterday that its P300 desktop disk drives use shingled magnetic recording technology (SMR), which can exhibit slow data write speeds. However, the company does...
Seagate ‘submarines’ SMR into 3 Barracuda drives and a Desktop HDD
Some Seagate Barracuda Compute and Desktop disk drives use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology which can exhibit slow data write speeds. But Seagate documentation does not spell this out.
Yesterday...
Shingled hard drives have non-shingled zones for caching writes
The revelation that some WD Red NAS drives are shipped with DM-SMR (Drive-Managed Shingled Magnetic Recording) prompted us to ask more detailed questions to the Blocks & Files reader...
Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording
Some users are experiencing problems adding the latest WD Red NAS drives to RAID arrays and suspect it is because they are actually shingled magnetic recording drives submarined into...