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.
The percentage failure rates are revealed...
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 maximum capacity compared to a prior...
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 and SSDs.
Seagate’s...
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 a loss compared to a year...
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 getting on...
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 and modular P100 and the larger...
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 Enmotus’s Virtual SSD server software does....
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'.
Chief Marketing Officer...
WD makes cheaper, faster air-filled alternative to 10TB helium hard drive
Western Digital has introduced a 10TB air-filled drive that transfers data faster and is less expensive than its 10TB helium-filled drive.
The first 6TB disk drive, the Ultrastar He6 was...
Western Digital parades go-faster, get-bigger IntelliFlash arrays
Western Digital has updated the IntelliFlash storage array range with a lower-priced entry-level NVMe models and a higher-capacity SAS array. The storage giant has also added live dataset migration...
Why hard drives fail
Damaged recording surfaces are responsible for 70 per cent of hard disk drive (HDD) failures.
Damage is generally caused by the hard drive experiencing a physical shock; being hit, falling...
Molecular data storage makes waves
Research scientists have demonstrated kilobyte-scale data storage in synthetic metabolitic molecules, smaller than DNA, with data read by mass spectrometry. This could lead to dense offline storage that may...