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.

The fastest external hard drives deliver more than just a ... It features a 2.5in SMR-based drive with a 128MB cache – with benchmarking showing it's faster than the 2TB LaCie Mobile Drive ...