RPM is often the most important statistic that sets two hard drives apart. Or so you might think, until you encounter SMR and ...

Seagate started shipping hard drives with HAMR tech in December 2024, turning a long-awaited technological advancement into a ...

Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology is an advanced method used in hard disk drives (HDDs) to increase storage density. By overlapping data tracks like shingles on a roof, SMR allows for ...

Everything is recorded linearly with each sector being written and read independently, allowing specific sectors to be rewritten without affecting any other sector on the drive. SMR is a newer ...

Seagate added a 36TB Exos M model to its growing family of datacenter hard disk drives, making it the largest hard disk drive ...

However, Seagate is not yet releasing the Exos M 36 TByte to the retail market. Samples will first be sent to data center ...

SMR, HAMR, MAMR, EAMR, XAMR, and QLC to name the most common. Let’s take a look at how we got here, and how the past and present of persistent storage have expanded what the word hard drive ...

which uses Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR). The latter's overlapped write tracks are the reason for the increased capacity and WD's drive employs the same recording technology. This release ...

The company has been ramping up its 24TB CMR / 28TB SMR drives, and these now represent the second-highest revenue product, contributing more than 20% of total nearline revenues. On the last ...

Seagate's initial family of Exos M HAMR-based hard drives currently includes a 30TB model using conventional magnetic recording (CMR) and a 32TB model using the shingled magnetic recording (SMR ...