Why buy 16TB hard drives? Our 18TBs give you more for your money -WD
Customers could go straight to 18TB and 20TB disk drives from current 14TB drives, bypassing the 16TB capacity level.
So says Aaron Rakers, a senior analyst at Wells Fargo, following...
Toshiba whips up small NAS and workstation disk drives in 16TB flavours
Toshiba has introduced 16TB versions of its N300 small office NAS and X300 PC/workstation disk drives, adding two extra TB to the existing products.
The company's first 16TB drive, the...
Western Digital debuts 18TB and 20TB near-MAMR disk drives
Western Digital has announced 18 and 20TB disk drives using a partial microwave-assisted magnetic (MAMR) recording technology implementation (ePMR). Sample shipments are due by the end of the year.
The...
How long before SSDs replace nearline disk drives?
Aaron Rakers, the Wells Fargo analyst, thinks enterprise storage buyers will start to prefer SSDs when prices fall to five times or less that of hard disk drives....
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.
They are designed to...
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 Exagrid has refreshed its appliance software to v5.2.2.
This release adds...
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...