Forward-looking: Seagate has invested a huge amount of money and energy into a HAMR-powered future for storage based on magnetic technology. Now the company says it's almost ready to bring its next ...

Forward-looking: The new Exos 2X18 hard drives improve on the already impressive specs of the Exos 2X14 units. Using the Mach.2 multi-actuator solution, the 2X18 brings the humble magnetic storage ...

The first storage media — paper tape and punched cards — were inefficient, slow and bulky. These gave way to magnetic storage: core memory, drums and, finally, hard drives. For backup, there were ...

Computer rooms were once filled with spinning magnetic media because mechanical drives were the cheapest way to store permanent data. However, the moment when IT shops retire their whirling hard disk ...

Data growth is estimated to double between 2022 and 2026 and with that growth in data the amount of data retained is increasing. Although NAND flash memory-based SSDs are growing in importance for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. During recent prior year projections for digital storage and memory we have not talked much about digital storage using optical ...

Even though we've all moved on to using flash drives on our machines instead of spinning hard disks, the latter is still the dominant technology in today's data centers. For data that just needs to be ...

It makes sense to reuse, recycle, give away or sell on fully functional phones and computers when you’ve upgraded to the next model. Unfortunately, unethical chancers can, have and will data-mine ...