If you're looking for new hard drives to increase the storage capacity ... be rewritten without affecting any other sector on the drive. SMR is a newer technology that takes the same concentric ...

SMR hard drives have become a lot more common in the entry-level HDD sector, and that’s a trend I’m particularly salty about.

The bloom is on solid state drives that are faster and more reliable, use less energy and are quieter than their geriatric brethren -- hard disk drives. But it's way too soon to say goodbye to HDDs.

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 ...

Although the likes of Pure Storage, IBM, and Meta believe the writing is on the wall for hard drives, the technology ... which ranges from 30TB (CMR) to 36TB (SMR), with a breakthrough 3TB-per ...