Hot-swapping a hard drive sounds like one of the simpler jobs in enterprise storage. Pull the failed drive. Slide in the replacement. Wait for the system to recognize it, rebuild around it, and move on.
In a fully qualified storage …
AI demand has redrawn the hard drive market. With nearline capacity sold out through 2026 and the Big Three openly chasing 100TB, the long-running capacity story is entering its next phase.
Three years ago the storage industry was wrestling with …
In an HDD, the task of positioning the read-write head falls to the hard drive actuator assembly, which moves the actuator arms to which the heads are attached. Positioning and holding the read/write head accurately isn’t easy when billions of …
When it comes to tiering and data centers, flash dominates “hot storage”: those use cases where low latency is a must. Meanwhile, the low cost of nearline HDD has allowed spinning media to retain its dominance in warm tiers, especially …
Recertified hard drives are rigorously tested and available at a discount. But making a quality purchase involves knowing what to look for.
When it comes to purchasing hard disk drives (HDDs), there are often trade-offs between cost and quality. Factory …
As high-cap hard drive demand rises in tandem with the recent surge in data center construction, Seagate, Western Digital, and Toshiba are pressing ahead with ambitious HDD capacity roadmaps. With Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) technology now delivering long-promised growth in …
Will the current surge in demand for affordable high-cap storage keep HDD on top? Or are solid state drives (SSD), fueled by long-term declines in NAND flash …
The continued surge in data generation, projected to hit 181 zettabytes of data generation worldwide in 2025 alone, is putting enormous pressure on storage infrastructure. It is also intensifying a face-off between nearline HDD and QLC SSD. Since a great …
