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

and shipped the first SMR HDD in 2015. In 2016, the drive technology is expected to achieve widespread adoption, with a bevy of commercial and consumer drives hitting the market. SMR is the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, Seagate is not yet releasing the Exos M 36 TByte to the retail market. Samples will first be sent to data center operators for qualification and evaluation. The situation ...

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