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High-capacity HDD roadmap: the race to 100TB and zettabyte-scale storage — Toshiba, Seagate and WD outline three distinct strategies
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.
Crushing shortages have pushed long-term supply agreements for SSDs and HDDs to record five years
Demand for storage devices is so high that large customers are willing to sign up to five-year long-term supply agreements, according to Sandisk, Seagate, and Western Digital.
Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026
Western Digital's production for 2026 is completely earmarked for its top seven customers, with a few long-term agreements already in place for the next couple of years.
Cloud storage company releases its 2025 hard drive reliability report
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.
WD Green SN3000 1TB SSD Review: A diamond in the rough
The WD Green SN3000 repudiates the reputation of its drive line by delivering surprisingly good performance.
Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond
Premium Western Digital outlines vision for hard drive platforms in 2030 and beyond: 14 platters, new laser technology, capacities of 140TB and beyond.
Western Digital reveals new software platform to manage hundreds of petabytes of storage
Western Digital to give large customers a tool to manage storage fleets of 200+ PB consisting of SSDs, HAMR HDDs, and UltraSMR drives.
Western Digital doubles the performance of hard drives with dual-actuator High-Bandwidth, with path to 8X performance increase
Western Digital reveals hard disk drives tailored for higher performance and lower power consumption, targeting QLC NAND-based solid-state storage.
