StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
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Vol 335 · Issue 3
Storage — Archive · Vol 335 Issue 3
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StorageNewsletter.com, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Backblaze Publishes 2025 Drive Stats Report: 13 Years Of Data Show Growing, Healthier Drive Fleet
Annual failure rate drops to 1.36% across 344,000+ drives; high-capacity models on the rise as first 26TB drives enter service
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Platters: WD New Disk Drive Tech Hits Lucky 14
WD, currently shipping 11-platter disk drives, announced, new disk drive technology with up to 14 platters, enabling an up to 27 percent capacity increase.
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Search Storage, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Can AI Save The Storage Admin?
AI initiatives have created a surge of data, making traditional storage management insufficient. How much can AI help solve the issue it is creating?
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StorageNewsletter.com, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
R&D: Four Articles on HAMR, MAMR and SMR Disks
High-throughput SEM imaging of nanoscale metal grains for HAMR, quantifying erasure and interference from adjacent tracks in HAMR, cubic anisotropy media for MAMR, mitigating the Write-amplification effect of large-scale semi-external graphs on SMR drives
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