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 ...

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 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 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 ...