After years of slow growth, HDD capacity is once again increasing rapidly. So how is shingled magnetic recording (SMR) helping drive this acceleration?
As the hard drive market picks back up from a two-year slump, manufacturers like Seagate, Western Digital, …
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 …
Does the recent dip in shipped units mean that the end is nigh for hard disk drives? Are solid state drives (SSD), fueled by long-term declines in …
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 …
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 …
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 …
JBODs are simple, but not simplistic. Added features can supercharge the usual JBOD use cases. By incorporating self-healing data storage into its Exos CORVAULT system, Seagate is trying to pioneer the future of JBOD.
JBOD is a versatile virtual architecture. …
Speculating on the future of data center storage is hardly an exact science. This is even more true in a year when economic pressures and low demand have spelled trouble for HDD and SSD alike. However, look closely at …
Providers of all-flash arrays believe they can make HDD a thing of the past. Their argument: that denser and more efficient storage solutions will eventually lower the TCO of flash below that of HDD.
It’s been a turbulent time for …
