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Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze hard drives ranks HGST most reliable and Toshiba the least

By Luke James Published

Backblaze's quarterly reports compare whichever drives are available at the time.

HDDs
Class-action lawsuit filed against HDD suspension assembly makers

By Bruno Ferreira Published

Class-action lawsuit filed against HDD suspension assembly makers

HDDs
High-capacity HDD roadmap: the race to 100TB and zettabyte-scale storage — Toshiba, Seagate and WD outline three distinct strategies

By Anton Shilov Published

Premium As data center demand surges toward zettabyte scale, Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital are pursuing sharply different technology strategies in their pursuit towards 100TB and beyond.

Premium
Hard Drives
Toshiba refuses to replace large hard drive that was under warranty

By Jowi Morales Published

A disappointing move from a major hard drive supplier.

HDDs
Enthusiast reverse engineers world’s smallest HDD to access data with help from an old Nokia N91 and OpenClaw

By Mark Tyson Published

Maker Will Whang designed the MK4001MTD USB Bridge to facilitate the use of the world’s smallest (0.85-inch) mechanical hard drives, originally released by Toshiba in 2004.

External HDDs
Western Digital
Cloud storage company releases its 2025 hard drive reliability report

By Jowi Morales Published

Backblaze just released its annual drive reliability report, with the company getting a 1.36% annualized failure rate for 2025. It says that this is its best result since 2022.

HDDs
Toshiba touts industry-first 12-disk HDD stacking technology, will pair with microwave-based recording tech

By Mark Tyson Published

Toshiba claims it is the first to “verify 12-disk stacking technology,” while its HDD rivals flounder with 10 or 11.

HDDs
Brother printers join the dark side
689 different Brother printer models all use the serial number to create default password

By Sunny Grimm Published

The password vulnerability cannot be fixed with firmware, so change your dang passwords.

Cyber Security
Seagate
Western Digital still plans to start shipping 36TB HAMR hard drives in 2027

By Anton Shilov Published

At Computex 2025, Western Digital confirmed plans to begin mass production of HAMR-based hard drives in 2027, starting with 36TB, 40TB, and 44TB models.

HDDs
Toshiba 24TB N300 and N300 Pro HDDs
Toshiba says Europe doesn't need 24TB HDDs, witholds beefy models from region

By Anton Shilov Published

Toshiba has withheld the European launch of its 24TB N300 and N300 Pro NAS hard drives despite rivals offering similar models there, citing low demand.

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