People might take hard drives for granted these days. After all, their use of moving parts makes them less suited for mobile devices and their bulky sizes give off an "old school" vibe. Hard disks and ...

I feel like I'm the only person over here buying WD Golds for my NAS instead of WD Reds. Rather than admit fault and undo what they've done, they release a blog post ...

SSDs are increasingly popular these days, but there's still plenty of demand for large spinning disks in the enterprise sector and still some home users who prefer sheer capacity to raw speed when ...

SMR technology offers higher density, lower prices and performance Seagate has announced its first drive based on shingled magnetic recording (SMR), a new technology that could give mechanical drives ...

Multiple hard drive manufacturers were caught shipping SMR drives to consumers, but only Western Digital put them in its NAS product line. That decision has won the company a class action lawsuit.

Storage vendors, including but reportedly not limited to Western Digital, have quietly begun shipping SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) disks in place of earlier CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) ...

Western Digital, one of the biggest names in the data storage industry, got dragged into a rather complicated controversy regarding hard disk technology and marketing. That drama also dragged others ...

Dropbox on Tuesday gave an update on its progress since deploying Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drive technology a year ago. The company said SMR drives have added hundreds of petabytes of new ...

Storage-centric news blog Blocks and Files reports that both Seagate and Western Digital have been 'submarining' SMR HDDs into products where they might not be an optimal choice. It says that Seagate ...

While most computer users usually prefer using SSD storage, Toshiba is announcing its brand new HDD offering. The new storage will be a 3.5-inch P300 Desktop PC Hard Drive. According to the story by ...