Latest about HDDs
$28 hard drive from Amazon turns out to be legit despite the price
The UnionSine DataPocket 500GB external drive interestingly works as expected, despite its low price.
Western Digital still plans to start shipping 36TB HAMR hard drives in 2027
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.
HDD Benchmarks Hierarchy 2025: Here's all the hard disks we've tested over the past couple of years ranked by performance.
Price per TB is another factor to consider.
Seagate on track for 100TB HDDs by 2030 — claims current top drive will triple in capacity in 5 years
Seagate claims that it is on track to sell a 100 TB hard drive by 2030, representing a 3x increase over its largest currently available model.
Toshiba says Europe doesn't need 24TB HDDs, witholds beefy models from region
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.
'World's First' encrypted 26TB hard disk debuts with diskAshur DT3 and DT2 models
iStorage raises storage limits for its encrypted diskAshur DT3 and diskAshur DT2 desktop drives
Buffalo celebrates 50yr anniversary with a limited edition 'skeleton' transparent hard disk
Buffalo Japan has launched the Buffalo HD-SKL 'skeleton hard disk' with a transparent panel showing the inner mechanism.
Toshiba launches 24TB hard drives priced up to $649 for NAS systems
Toshiba just launched 24 TB HDDs designed for NAS and private cloud systems for consumers and SMEs.
