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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StorageReview, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Backblaze 2025 Year-End Drive Stats: Annual AFR Falls To 1.36% As High-Capacity Drives Dominate Fleet
Backblaze has now published 13 years of Drive Stats data, one of the most extensive longitudinal datasets on hard drive reliability in production environments. Over time, this dataset has become a valuable reference for understanding drive performance trends across models, capacities, and deployment conditions.
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StorageReview, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
WD Maps Out 100TB+ HDD Roadmap and Performance Breakthroughs for AI Storage
At its Innovation Day 2026 event, Western Digital (now rebranded as WD) unveiled a customer-centric storage roadmap to reinvent hard drives for AI-era infrastructure, spanning 100TB+ HDDs, new performance- and power-optimized architectures, and an intelligent platform designed to improve storage economics and time-to-value.
more → Solutions Review, Friday, January 30th, 2026
Debunking 4 Myths About HDDs
Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) have served as the backbone of the digital revolution for years - giving organizations a reliable storage medium for supporting the massive amount of data created, stored and archived each year.
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Networkworld, Monday, January 26th, 2026
Storage Shortage May Cause AI Delays For Enterprises
Enterprises are facing storage shortages, long lead times, and dramatic price increases, which may cause some to defer on-prem AI projects.
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ET Insights, Monday, January 19th, 2026
5 Reasons HDDs Will Continue To Dominate Enterprise Storage In The AI Era
Enterprises today are grappling with an unprecedented surge in data creation. Every interaction from video and images to logs, sensor outputs, and (AI-)generated content is contributing to an exponential rise in what businesses must store and analyze.
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Search Storage , Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
7 Storage Vendors Responding To Growing AI Demands
AI workloads are beginning to influence the products that storage vendors are offering. These are seven notable examples of storage vendors that are shifting their strategies.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
Hard Disk Drives: From Megabytes To The Terabyte Era And Beyond
The journey of HDDs spans more than 60 years, transforming from bulky, low-capacity storage devices to the high-density, cost-effective solutions of today.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
Why Storage Architecture is the New Bottleneck for HPC and AI Teams
Every year at Supercomputing, the conversations reveal where the industry's pressure points really are. This year in St. Louis, the pattern was unmistakable: as GPU clusters scale, organizations are hitting a wall that has nothing to do with compute power.
more → techradar, December 11,2025
10 Storage Technologies That Want To Replace Hard Drives
From enterprise storage to cold archives, these ideas rethink how data is stored
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Technative, December 11,2025
Flexibility Or Captivity? The Data Storage Decision Shaping Your AI Future
Why vendor data lock-in is common in enterprise IT and how to keep it at bay.
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Search Data Management, December 11,2025
4 Trends That Shaped Data Management, Analytics In 2025
With each relating to agentic AI development, tendencies included nearly universal support for MCP and rising emphasis on semantic modeling, among others.
more → Blocks & Files, Thursday, December 18th, 2025
The Storage Integration Problem That Breaks Infrastructure Automation
Why mess with APIs when you can integrate more fundamentally?
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Search Storage, Thursday, December 18th, 2025
5 Storage Industry Predictions For 2026
2026 will likely see a number of trends regarding storage and infrastructure. Much of these trends come from already developing spaces like AI, security and digital sovereignty.
more → Search Storage, December 8,2025
A Dozen Data Storage Acronyms You Should Know
There are many acronyms people use in the data storage space. The following are 12 of the more commonly appearing acronyms.
more → Search Storage, December 8,2025
Top SAN Products Powering Enterprise ITStrategy
Selecting the right SAN products is vital to enabling a modern data strategy that drives operational efficiency and enterprise ROI.
more → information age, December 8,2025
Flash Storage Prices Are Surging - Why Auto-Tiering Is Now Essential
This article explores what you should do now that flash storage is becoming unsustainable for organisations
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Blocks & Files, Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
Gartner's Storage Sermon For 2026 - 2029
Enterprise storage planners and buyers must adopt cyber-storage, autonomous storage and manage by SLA outcomes
more → techradar, Monday, December 1st, 2025
Seagate's Latest Breakthrough Ushers In The Age Of 55TB Or Even 69TB Hard Drives - And It Isn't Stopping There
Larger platters of 7TB to 15TB are projected beyond 2031
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, November 28th, 2025
Backblaze Q3 2025 Drive Stats Rethinking Failure
Every quarter, Drive Stats gives us the numbers. This quarter, it gave us a crisis of meaning. What does it really mean for a hard drive to fail? Is it the moment the lights go out, or the moment we decide they have? Philosophers might call that an ontological gray area. We just call it Q3.
more → HPCwire, Friday, November 28th, 2025
The Cost Of Doing Nothing: Why Unstructured Data Is Draining IT Budgets
Unstructured data, including everything from videos, images and emails to documents, sensor data and AI outputs, already represents up to 90% of enterprise information.
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Blocks & Files, Wednesday, November 26th, 2025
Parallel File Systems Explained: Metadata, Striping, And Throughput
Parallel file systems can be confusing. They are needed in high-performance computing (HPC) to provide sufficiently high aggregate I/O bandwidth and low-latency access to shared data for thousands or tens of thousands of compute nodes (or millions of cores) working on the same problem simultaneously.
more → SearchStorage, Thursday, November 20th, 2025
7 Ways Hybrid Cloud Storage Is Reshaping San Strategy
As hybrid cloud adoption accelerates, SAN management is evolving. Examine seven ways modernization, security and cost priorities are shifting for enterprise leaders.
more → SearchStorage, Thursday, November 20th, 2025
5 Signs Your Storage Infrastructure Is Due For An Upgrade
Outdated storage risks missed business opportunities and high costs. These five warning signs reveal when it's time to upgrade your organization's NAS or SAN systems.
more → SearchStorage, Thursday, November 20th, 2025
Top San Products Powering Enterprise It Strategy
Selecting the right SAN products is vital to enabling a modern data strategy that drives operational efficiency and enterprise ROI.
more → Blocks & Files, Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
Why Don't Storage Systems Last 12 Years?
Storage systems once followed a predictable refresh pattern: every three-to-four years for performance and every four-to-five years for capacity. That pattern still dominates today, even though the underlying technology has advanced far beyond what most organizations need.
more → Help Net Security, Wednesday, November 12th, 2025
What The Latest Data Reveals About Hard Drive Reliability
What really counts as a hard drive failure? That's the question at the center of Backblaze's Q3 2025 Drive Stats report, which tracks the performance of 328,348 hard drives across its global data centers.
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StorageReview, Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
Backblaze Q3 2025 Drive Stats: Failure Rates Climb, Outliers Emerge, And AI Workloads Reshape Infrastructure
Backblaze has published its Q3 2025 Drive Stats and Network Stats reports, offering another data-rich look at the health and performance of its massive cloud storage infrastructure.
more → Search Storage, Monday, November 10th, 2025
NVMe speeds vs. SATA and SAS: Which is fastest?
The NVMe protocol is tailor-made to make SSDs fast. Get up to speed on NVMe performance and how it compares to the SATA and SAS interfaces, plus recent specifications.
more → ComputerWeekly, Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
HDD Metrics And Why Mean Time To Failure Is Not Terribly Useful
In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese of Toshiba about hard drive metrics, why MTTF is less useful than annualised failure rate, and why big systems need to use enterprise drives
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Search Storage, Thursday, October 30th, 2025
NVMe Over TCP Details And Features You Need To Know
NVMe/TCP is here. The specification lays out how to deliver data across an existing TCP network, making implementation simple and cost-efficient.
more → Storage Swiss, Saturday, October 25th, 2025
All Immutable Storage Does Not Equal Ransomware Protection
Ransomware continues to be one of IT's biggest challenges, driving organizations to look for better ways to protect their data and accelerate recovery. One of the most common and effective countermeasures is immutable storage - the ability to lock data so it cannot be changed, deleted, or encrypted by an attacker.
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ComputerWeekly, Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
Podcast: SSD For High Performance, But HDD Suits 'Warm' Workloads
We talk to Axel Stoermann of drive maker Kioxia about the efficiencies and performance that flash storage can bring, but why hard disk drives are still a key choice in some use cases
more → Blocks & Files, Monday, October 20th, 2025
The End Of The Disk Drive Bathtub Curve
Backblaze disk drive failure stats suggest the 'bathtub curve' effect may be imaginary.
more → Analytics Insight, Saturday, October 18th, 2025
What Is The Best HDD Brand In 2025: Reliability, Speed & Storage
From Western Digital to Samsung: Top Hard Drive Brands in 2025 for Performance and Durability
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HPC Wire, Thursday, October 16th, 2025
Future Of Storage: HPC And AI Storage By The Numbers
In the first story of our 'Future of AI and HPC Storage' series, we looked at the overall market for HPC and AI storage and some of the big challenges that organizations are facing and trends shaping the market.
more → Search Storage, Monday, October 6th, 2025
High-Capacity SSDs Positioned To Tackle AI Onslaught
More AI means more data, and organizations need a way to accommodate it all. For that, flash vendors are looking to high-capacity SSDs as a critical layer in the storage hierarchy.
more → Search Storage, Friday, September 26th, 2025
5 Tips For Improving Data Storage Efficiency
Update on-premises infrastructure, refine DLM strategies, employ data reduction techniques and continuously monitor storage systems to improve storage efficiency.
more → Search Storage, Wednesday, September 24th, 2025
Glossary Of 25 Top Data Storage Terms You Should Know
This collection of data storage terms covers newer technologies, such as blockchain storage, and legacy tech, including network-attached storage and tape drives.
more → Search Storage, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
AI Dominates 2025 Future Of Memory And Storage Conference
Techs discussed at the Future of Memory and Storage event included high-capacity and high-performance SSDs, all against the backdrop of AI. Explore expert analysis from the show.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, September 18,2025
New Enterprise Storage Platforms Magic Quadrant From Gartner For 2025
A few weeks ago Gartner published a new report about storage and this one is named Enterprise Storage Platforms as the analyst firm as to go beyond primary storage as it didn't reflect completely the market reality.
more → Blocks & Files, September 16,2025
Storage Deduplication Is A Commodity - Infrastructure-Wide Makes It Strategic
We have enough silo-based problems. Deduplication shouldn't be another.
more → ComputerWeekly.com, Thursday, September 11th, 2025
Storage Is Key To AI Projects That Succeed
Artificial intelligence is a key project for enterprise IT currently, but the difference between success and failure rests on having the right infrastructure, especially in data storage
more → Search Storage, Friday, September 5th, 2025
Is Storage The Weak Link In Your Cyber-Resilience Strategy?
While challenges exist in applying cyber resilience to storage platforms, vendors are starting to make it easier for organizations to add that needed layer of protection.
more → StorageNewsletter, Wednesday, August 27th, 2025
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Ozone V.2.0.0
First object store to support operational databases, with major usability and compatibility enhancements
more → linuxiac, Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
What to Expect From TrueNAS 25.10 Open-Source Storage
TrueNAS 25.10 'Goldeye' open-source NAS is on the way, bringing Terabit networking, cloud-driven setup, and new virtualization features.
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Search Data Backup, Monday, August 25th, 2025
Enterprise Data Governance: Frameworks And Best Practices
Data backup and recovery depend on a solid governance framework that includes procedures for data management, stewardship, quality monitoring, protection, security and compliance.
more → RTInsights, Saturday, August 23rd, 2025
The Silent Data Crisis: Why Unstructured Data Is Costing Every Industry More Than They Think
Across industries, unstructured data management is no longer just a cost-saving tactic but a strategic enabler.
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Blocks & Files, Thursday, August 14th, 2025
Storage And Data Teams Need To Talk
Interview. Blocks and Files is a storage-focussed outlet that has progressed, with the industry, into data access, management and AI pipeline feeding.
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