External Storage

Market research firm IHS predicts a fast increase in HDD storage densities and, as a result, a similarly strong increase in storage capacities.

Both Seagate and Western Digital have improved their HDD shipments following the disastrous Thailand flood last year.

Not even James Bond would dare to steal the data on these drives.

G-Technology announced an external Thunderbolt drive the company claims is capable of reaching sustained throughput of 280 MB/s.

Sony is pushing the industry into ditching the old-school tape storage system with its new Optical Disc Archive Drive.

CloudFTP has made it from Kickstarter into a real-world product.

Market researchers believe that the HDD industry will be able to recover this year and grow unit shipments again.

Samsung said that it is building a new factory to manufacture NAND flash chips to meet the growing demand that is especially created by mobile computing devices.

Now you can cram 2 TB into your pants and honestly brag about it.

This new areal density milestone could pave the way to 3.5-inch drives with 60 TB capacities.

WD is shipping the My Book Thunderbolt Duo external storage system, but it doesn't come cheap.

Marvell announced mass market availability of its new 88SS9187 SATA controller that will find its way into SSDs for ultrabooks.

Promise Technology announced a smaller version of its Pegasus RAID storage box that integrates 2.5-inch hard drives as well as Thunderbolt connectivity.

Western Digital (WD) and Toshiba announced that the two companies have reached an agreement under which WD will sell certain 3.5-inch manufacturing and distribution assets.

Researchers have discovered that recording data on a HDD platter using a quick laser burst is much faster than the traditional use of a magnetic field.

This adapter provides a Thunderbolt connection to Seagate's portable GoFlex external drives.

Seagate estimates 2012 HDD shortage at 150 million units

Cleversafe, a cloud storage software vendor which offers its customers "limitless storage space", says that it has designed a dispersed storage system that exceeds a storage capability of 10 Exabytes (EB), or 1,000 Petabytes (PB).

Western Digital has introduced an external drive using Thunderbolt connectivity.