Multiple hard drive manufacturers were caught shipping SMR drives to consumers, but only Western Digital put them in its NAS product line. That decision has won the company a class action lawsuit.

SSDs are increasingly popular these days, but there's still plenty of demand for large spinning disks in the enterprise sector and still some home users who prefer sheer capacity to raw speed when ...

Although Network-Attached Storage devices are used for simple tasks like backup, file-sharing, and data archival, the NAS rabbit hole goes pretty deep. While the CPU and RAM aren’t as important as, ...

What is SMR and what it can enable? What applications are ideal for SMR pairing? How to tell if SMR storage solutions are right for your data center. Driven by an explosion of data creation and ...

A Spinning Potato: It's 2024, and hardware manufacturers are still competing to see who can produce the highest-capacity hard disk drives on the market. Seagate recently introduced its HAMR-powered ...

Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology represents a significant evolution in data storage, enabling enhanced areal densities by overlapping recording tracks. This design increases storage ...

Western Digital has pushed the capacity of its spinning disk hard disk drives (HDDs) by 2TB (terabytes) with the addition of an 11th platter. That has manifested in two new drives, the standard ...