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

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-based drives use a sophisticated architecture ... As IDC researcher Kuba Stolarski noted, hard disk drives remain a "critical" technology for AI applications and other enterprise-level storage ...

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 ...

This means 60TB hard drives are within reach and should arrive before the end of the decade (or as in marketing lingo, depending on market conditions). "CMR & SMR are different to HAMR ...

Seagate confirmed the use of SMR technology on request. The new Exos-M hard disk drive also retains ten magnetic disks in the housing. With a capacity of 3.6 TByte per disk, Seagate achieves the ...