By 2029, consumer SSD capacity will grow to 32 TB
With the advent of 3D flash memory technology, the capacity of SSD drives is growing rapidly, and the price per GB is steadily decreasing. IEEE predicts that SSD capacity will…
All SSDs have disappeared from the official Western Digital website – now you need to look for them from SanDisk
Western Digital, best known as a manufacturer of storage devices, announced the separation of its websites. WD.com will now focus on hard drives, and SanDisk.com will focus on flash memory…
Scientists have created an eternal optical 5D memory – the crystal will store up to 360 TB for billions of years
Researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK have successfully stored the entire human genome sequence on an indestructible 5D optical memory chip no larger than a small coin.…
Microsoft created a robot to disassemble and recycle 2 million hard drives per year
Faulty or worn-out hard drives can contain a lot of valuable data that needs to be guaranteed to be deleted beyond repair. But they also consist of some pretty valuable…
The media industry is losing old archives – every fifth hard drive with music from the 90s has failed due to age
Iron Mountain Enterprise Information Management Company specializes in records management, data destruction, data backup and recovery. According to the company, about a fifth of the hard drives containing music archives…
Toshiba introduced hard drives with CMR recording capacity up to 24 TB and with SMR up to 28 TB
Toshiba introduced the Mx11 family of high-capacity hard drives, which have a hermetic chamber filled with helium. It includes the MG11 series models with conventional magnetic recording (CMR) technology up…
22 TB and SATA III: Toshiba introduced an updated series of N300 hard drives for NAS
Toshiba has introduced an updated series of 3.5-inch N300 hard drives with a SATA III interface for use in network-attached storage (NAS). New items are offered in volumes of 2,…
22 TB and SATA III: Toshiba introduced an updated series of N300 hard drives for NAS
Toshiba has introduced an updated series of 3.5-inch N300 hard drives with a SATA III interface for use in network-attached storage (NAS). New items are offered in volumes of 2,…
Icy Dock introduced an adapter that will turn a PCIe 5.0 x16 slot into four M.2 connectors for fast SSDs
Icy Dock has introduced the ExpressSlot MB204MP-B device, which turns a PCIe 5.0 x16 slot into four M.2 slots for high-speed solid-state drives, with support for hot swapping and RAID.…
Western Digital to invest $693 million to expand hard drive production in Thailand
In Thailand, the American company Western Digital operates an enterprise responsible for producing 80% of all hard drives in the world. The company is going to increase its staff by…