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 ...

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

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. Thanks to their higher storage density, HDDs leveraging the ...

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.

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 ...

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

ST32000NM003K is part of the Exos M range and uses SMR which is more ... debuted its next-largest drive, a 30TB model Seagate has launched its largest-ever hard drive, a 32TB model in the Exos ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seagate has launched its largest-ever hard drive, a 32TB model in the Exos ... model ST32000NM003K, which uses Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR). The latter's overlapped write tracks are the ...