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 ...

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 ...

According to the product page for HAMR drives, the highest-capacity models (32TB and 36TB) rely on shingled magnetic recording (SMR) to achieve their impressive areal density and overall storage ...

SMR drives are only as fast as classic models with conventional magnetic recording (CMR) when reading and writing sequential data for the first time. Seagate confirmed the use of SMR technology on ...

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 ...