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The Trendline Doesn't Look Good For Hard Disk Drives
Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts
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StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, June 12th, 2025
Top 3 Technologies For The First 25 Years Of The Century
Around the end of last year, right after SC24 in Atlanta, GA, I realized that 2025 will arrive fast, representing the first 25 years of the century, a pretty unique moment. I asked myself about the technologies that impacted our industry the most and I decided to add this simple question to our survey as question #0.
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The Register, Monday, June 9th, 2025
Seagate still HAMRing away at the 100 TB disk drive decades later
The journey to mass production has been extraordinarily difficult - will it be worth it?
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, June 6th, 2025
Boosting HDD Lifespan
Hard drives prefer a stable and consistent operation at temperatures, ideally no higher than 40 degress C says Toshiba
more → Blocks&Files, Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Tech Leaders Struggling To Store AI Data, Never Mind Manage IT Research Shows
Four fifths of organizations have been burned by employees using Gen AI, with the leaking of sensitive data almost as common as false or inaccurate results, research by Komprise has found.
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Search Data Center, Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
What Is Hyperconverged Storage?
Hyperconverged storage is a software-defined approach to storage management that combines storage, compute, virtualization and networking technologies in one physical unit that's managed as a single virtualized system. This modern approach is one aspect of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).
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techradar, Friday, May 23rd, 2025
Kioxia's New 61.44TB SSD Uses Surprising Tech That Almost Doubles Write Performance Compared To Previous Gen
CM9 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs are sampling to select customers now
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How-To Geek, Friday, May 23rd, 2025
The World's Largest SSD Arrives With 122.88TB of Storage
At 122.88TB, the Solidigm D5-P5336 is the world's largest SSD. It's intended for datacenters, of course, and the $12,399 price tag is probably beyond your budget anyway, but it's an impressive piece of hardware that serves a compelling purpose.
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ComputerWeekly, Friday, May 23rd, 2025
AI Storage: NAS vs SAN vs Object For Training And Inference
Artificial intelligence operations can place different demands on storage during training, inference, and so on. We look at NAS, SAN and object storage for AI and how to balance them for AI projects
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Blocks&Files, Saturday, May 17th, 2025
Disk Drive Capacity Shipments Out To 2030 Forecast To Rocket Upwards
An analyst report says disk drive capacity shipments are orojected to rise steeply bupwards between now and 2030.
more → StorageReview.com, Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
Backblaze Q1 2025 Drive Stats: Reliability Holds Steady Amid Incremental Shifts
Backblaze released its latest DriveStats report for the first quarter of 2025, offering another detailed look at hard drives' reliability across its massive cloud storage infrastructure.
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Blocks&Files, Thursday, May 8th, 2025
PeerGFS Adds Simultaneous Multi-Protocol File Access
The latest release of PeerGFS (GFS stands for Global File Service) can access the same file through SMB and NFS protocols at the same time.
more → techradar, Friday, May 2nd, 2025
128TB SSD Going Mainstream As Innodisk Announces Its Gen5 Flagship Solid State Drive With 14GBps Read Speeds
The new data center drives are available in a choice of form factors
more → Solutions Review, Monday, April 28th, 2025
What Enterprise Leaders Need To Know About The Hidden Economics Of Exabyte Storage
Your company could be overpaying for storage-not because you bought the wrong drives or chose the wrong vendor, but because the true economics of enterprise storage remain largely hidden from view.
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techradar, Friday, April 25th, 2025
This SSD Just Smashed The 15 Gbps Speed Barrier To Become The Fastest Ever Tested, But You Won't Be Able To Run It On A Normal PC
Built for AI and beyond, this SSD is not for your desktop
more → SNIA, Thursday, April 24th, 2025
Cloud Object Storage Incompatibilities Q&A
The SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies (CST) community hosted a live webinar, 'Building Community to Tackle Cloud Object Storage Incompatibilities,' where we highlighted how a multi-vendor group of industry innovators came together to address incompatibility issues between various object storage implementations that challenge many organizations.
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techradar, Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Western Digital Plans To Launch 40TB HDD Next Year Using HAMR Technology And A Pinch Of Flash Memory
WD says AI-driven storage demand will spike in late 2026
more → BigDATAwire, Thursday, April 17th, 2025
GigaOM Report Highlights Top Performers in Unstructured Data Management for 2025
With an exponential growth in unstructured data, enterprises are facing a new set of challenges that demand innovative solutions.
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Analytics Insight, Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Best Cloud Storage Software In 2025
Cloud storage is required for archiving, collaboration, and accessing information anywhere. Given the number of choices, deciding which cloud storage software to use can be challenging.
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ITProToday, Monday, April 7th, 2025
CMR vs. SMR and ePMR vs. HAMR: Making Sense of the HDD Alphabet Soup
With data generation surging past 200 zettabytes this year, cutting-edge HDD technologies like CMR, SMR, EAMR, ePMR, HAMR, and MAMR are redefining capacity, density, and efficiency.
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StorageReview.com, Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
Western Digital Expands Purple Pro HDD Lineup with 26TB Model
Ahead of NAB 2025, Western Digital has introduced a new 26TB WD Purple Pro hard drive for high-capacity smart video solutions. As the largest capacity drive within this enterprise-class series, the 26TB model aims to address increasing storage demands driven by AI-enabled recorders, video analytics, and cloud-based systems.
more → Security Boulevard, Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
More Than Music: The Unseen Cybersecurity Threats Of Streaming Services
As our daily lives become increasingly dependent on the internet for services, attackers are finding new and innovative ways to steal personal information from unconventional platforms.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Tuesday, April 1st, 2025
NAS Solutions Extend Their Reach Deeper Into Organizations
Network-attached storage (NAS) solutions have become notable if, for no other reason, in how organizations utilize them in multiple roles. Organizations may view using them in one, 2 or even 3 different roles in their IT environments. However, as DCIG uncovered in its recent research into NAS solutions, they have extended their reach almost everywhere within organizations.
more → The Register, Thursday, March 27th, 2025
Even Google Struggles To Balance Fast-But-Pricey Flash And Cheap-But-Slow Hard Disks
Reveals it 'dramatically improved IOPS and throughput' of its own storage with homebrew 'L4' automation and cache
more → Blocks&Files, Tuesday, March 25th, 2025
Seagate Sees Fresh Spin For NVMe Hybrid Flash/Disk Array
A Seagate blog says that fast-access hybrid flash+disk drive arrays are a good fit to AI workload needs because retaining large datasets solely on SSDs is financially unsustainable for most enterprises.
more → techradar, Thursday, March 20th, 2025
After 7 Years, Exadrive's 100TB 2.5-Inch SSD Is Finally Superseded By A Far Superior 122.88TB Model From Kioxia
LC9 Series is the first in its class to support PCIe Gen5
more → techradar.pro, Monday, March 17th, 2025
Western Digital Introduces 26Tb WD Red Pro HDDs For Raid And NAS Systems At A Surprisingly Low Price
The drive boasts 2.5 million hours MTBF and comes with a five-year warranty
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, March 14th, 2025
Kioxia Unveils Upcoming High-Capacity LC9 Series 122.88TB NVMe 2.5-Inch SSD for AI Applications
Kioxia America, Inc. announced the development of its LC9 Series 122.88TB capacity NVMe SSD in a 2.5-inch form factor - a first SSD built with the company's BiCS FLASH Gen8 3D flash memory technology QLC 2 tb die.
more → Search Storage, Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
The Future Of Storage Is Disaggregated, However You Cut It
The benefits of HCI can be profound, but so can the drawbacks. Disaggregated storage might offer more flexibility and efficiency for enterprise AI workloads.
more → The Register, Friday, March 7th, 2025
Quad Goals: Meta Proposes QLC SSDs As A New Storage Tier In Datacenters
Trying to find a middle ground between spinning rust and performant TLC
more → ComputerWeekly, Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
Flash Drive Prices Bump Along, As Sas Hdds Gain Mystery Bounce
Flash drive prices drop again, but slowly, as they bump along after highs in late 2023. Meanwhile, spinning disk HDD prices experience a rare flutter, with SAS cost per gigabyte rising 18%
more → Blocks&Files, Monday, March 3rd, 2025
Storage Industry Bets Big On AI - But Where Are The Killer Apps?
The storage industry is making across-the-board investments to support generative AI workloads, but where are the must-have apps or supplier moats to sustain this investment?
more → Search Storage, Monday, February 24th, 2025
What Is Storage Virtualization?
Storage virtualization is the pooling of physical storage from multiple storage devices into what appears to be a single storage device or pool of available storage capacity. A central console is used to manage the storage.
more → Storage Switzerland, Monday, February 24th, 2025
How to Eliminate Future Storage Refreshes with an Enterprise-Class vSAN
A storage refresh is often a costly and time-consuming process, forcing IT teams to evaluate, purchase, and migrate data every few years.
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techradar.pro, Saturday, February 22nd, 2025
Beyond 100TB, Here'a How Western Digital Is Betting On Heat Dot Magnetic Recording To Reach The Storage Skies
As well as supercharging HDDs, WD is also exploring ceramics and DNA storage
more → Analytics Insight, Thursday, February 20th, 2025
Definition: Defragmentation
Defragmentation is a process used to optimize the performance of a computer's hard drive by reorganizing fragmented data.
more → How-To Geek, Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
What Is A Helium Hard Drive?
Helium hard drives, a significant leap in hard disk drive (HDD) technology, offer promising improvements in storage density and power efficiency. The use of helium is the key to these advancements. Here's everything you need to know.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Global Software Defined Storage Market Size, Trends And Projections
According to the Market Research Intellect, the global Software Defined Storage (SDS) Solutions market is projected to grow at a robust CAGR of 15.41% from 2024 to 2031.
more → Blocks&Files, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
It's HAMR Time For Wd As It Outlines Drive Migration Plans
Western Digital revealed its HAMR disk technology migration plans in an Investor Day session and already has HAMR drives undergoing qualification by customers.
more → StorageReview.com, Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Backblaze 2024 Drive Stats: Hard Drive Failures Drop As High-Capacity Models Take Over
Backblaze has released its 2024 Drive Stats Report, providing a detailed look at the failure rates of over 301,000 data drives in its storage infrastructure.
more → Blocks&Files, Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Backblaze Reveals Best And Worst Disk Drives With 2024 Failure Rate Stats
Backup and cloud storage supplier Backblaze has released its quarterly disk drive stats report.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, February 7th, 2025
Cloud Native Storage Market To Exceed $100.09B By 2032
Driven by cloud-native tech adoption and digital transformation as per findings from SNS Insider
more → BigDATAwire, Thursday, February 6th, 2025
Data-Centric World: Insights From Object Management Group's Latest Journal
Data isn't just an asset or a resource for an organization, it's a dynamic force that fuels innovation, shapes decision-making, and improves operational efficiency.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, January 31st, 2025
SANBlaze Releases OCP 2.5 Conformance Testing Software
Certified by SANBlaze test suite within its latest version 10.8 software supports all aspects of NVMe qualification with addition of industry accepted OCP 2.5, with ongoing work for OCP 2.6.
more → StorageReview.com, Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
Enterprise AI Demand Makes the Case for 64G FC
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) training workloads is transforming data center infrastructure.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Monday, January 27th, 2025
Main Benefits of Kubernetes on OpenStack
This educational blog post has been written by Carol Platz, VP of marketing, Lightbits Labs on November 19, 2024 and presents a high-level overview of Kubernetes on OpenStack for private clouds.
more → The Register, Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
OpenZFS 2.3 Is Here, With RAID Expansion And Faster Dedup
Coming soon to April's TrueNAS SCALE release, dubbed 'Fangtooth'
more → Blocks&Files, Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
GenAI, LlMS, And Agents Are Transforming Storage
GenAI is washing through the IT world like water flooding across a landscape when a dam breaches. It is being viewed by many suppliers as an epoch-changing event, similar to the arrival of the internet, and feared by some as a potential dotcom bubble-like event.
more → BigDATAwire, Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
Solidigm Celebrates World's Largest SSD with '122 Day'
Solidigm recently shipped a new solid-state drive (SSD) featuring 122.88TB of storage capacity, the world's largest SSD, with enough storage to pack 4PB of data into a 1U rack.
more → Search Storage, Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
10 Data Storage Issues And How To Overcome Them
Don't overlook or ignore these 10 data storage issues -- including those related to staff, security and cost -- as they could disrupt operations without the proper planning.
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