After a rocky few years for the hard drive industry, the AI craze is renewing demand for mass data storage. To meet these needs, manufacturers have ambitious plans to increase hard drive capacity.
The past few years have proven challenging …
JBOD, which stands for ‘Just a Bunch of Drives,’ is a cost-effective, flexible, and straightforward way of arranging your storage devices.
Unlike RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) configurations, a JBOD setup offers greater utilization of drive capacity. It also …
JBOD is a simple and flexible storage architecture. Its use cases include everything from mission-critical tasks, to storing surveillance footage, to temporary storage during archival tape replacement.
When it comes to drives, there is strength in numbers. Data centers can …
Invented before the advent of digital computers, magnetic tape storage is the backbone of cold storage in enterprise data centers. Companies are competing to find ways to make tape storage denser, faster, and more searchable.
Where there’s business, there’s a …
Drive rewritability is important, but it matters more for some workloads than others. Understanding how drive endurance is measured can help you select drives which best meet your data center needs.
In the intricate landscape of data center management, selecting …
What’s driving the growing interest in DNA data storage as an alternative media for long-term use?
If there’s one thing the world could always use more of, it’s data storage. The rapidly growing Internet of Things produces a never-ending …
Leading storage analyst, Tom Coughlin, recently turned to Horizon Technology’s certified data sanitization program for hard drive disposal. He was impressed by Horizon’s process for hardware reuse, and the level of security it provides.
When it comes to hard drive …
The IEEE 2883 standard is highlighting non-destructive methods of data sanitization, paving the way for greener hardware lifecycles.
When it comes to sustainable business, no firm is an island. Greening the tech industry will require massive coordination between businesses.
A …
Why it’s important to address hard drive failure in the data center head on.
Storage technology is more sophisticated and durable than it’s ever been. But nothing lasts forever, and that includes hard drives. While the comparative durability of HDDs …
