HDDs News

A producer of thin films for HDDs has ‘collapsed’ and 600 people will have to find new jobs, according to reports from Taiwan.

Western Digital continues to increase capacities of ePMR and SMR hard drives.

Seagate updates its HAMR roadmap with 32TB, 40TB+ hard drives in investor documents.

The Sony PS5 Slim's external disc drive requires an internet connection for pairing, but some have raised fears this will make it hard to play games down the line.

Western Digital's 28TB Ultrastar DC HC HDD is set to compete against Seagate's 32 TB Exos HDD next year.

The HAMR HDD era has begun, but PMR and SMR drives will continue to ship for years.

Seagate unwraps some of its short-term HAMR plans, keeps betting on the technology.

Ben from Ben Makes Everything is using an old hard drive to power a DIY laser text projector with a little help from an Arduino.

Pure Storage exec predicts the demise of the HDD industry by 2028, but such a rapid decline might simply be wishful thinking by the flash-centric firm.

Backblaze has poured through its HDD failure rates to find out exactly how long drives can be counted on for the company's cloud storage business, and the results are not what you might expect.