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Seagate slapped with a class action lawsuit over hard drive failure rates
Seagate faces a lawsuit over allegedly high failure rates in 3 TB consumer hard drives.News
Notebook hard drives are dead: How SSDs will dominate mobile PC storage by 2018
Trends in SSD pricing and laptop sales could kill the mobile hard drive in three years. But don't write off traditional drives entirely just yet.News
Self-encrypting drives are hardly any better than software-based encryption
Two researchers demonstrated attacks against self-encrypting drives used in enterprise environments at the Black Hat Europe conference in Amsterdam.News
Storage shake-up: Western Digital is buying Sandisk for $19 billion
Hard disk drive specialist Western Digital has agreed to buy flash memory vendor Sandisk for $19 billion.News
Western Digital encrypted external hard drives have flaws that can expose data
The hardware-based encryption built into popular Western Digital external hard disk drives has flaws that could allow attackers to recover data without knowing the user password.News
Severe external drive vulnerability prompts Seagate to issue emergency patch
Seagate has a firmware patch that fixes a serious vulnerability for select versions of the company's wireless external hard drives.News
U2 tours with all-flash array to rock latest video effects
A ruggedized EMC VNXe3200 drives giant transparent LED screensNews
Bit by bit, Intel looks to quadruple SSD storage
Intel is looking to cram four bits per cell in an effort to cram more storage into SSDs.
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Samsung chip could bring 128GB storage to cheaper phones
The flash storage module is aimed at mass market devicesNews
Want a reliable hard drive? Splurge for 4TB, study of 40,000-plus HDDs finds
Cloud backup firm Backblaze finds remarkably low failure rates in 4TB HDDs from Seagate and HGST.News
External hard drives? Pfah! Samsung just launched external SSDs
Samsung's Portable SSD T1 offers storage from 250GB to 1TB, and starts at $199News
Seagate aims to make common hard drives uncommonly artistic
Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest hard drive of all? Seagate thinks its new drives are the answer, with mirror-like sheens and expensive wooden stands to complement more prosaic wirelessly connected drives.
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Are PC hard drives destined to die at the hand of the cloud? Maybe, analysts say
Are hard drives in PCs and consumer devices on their way out? Analysts had mixed opinions, leaving open the option that it could happen.News
SanDisk announces the Ultra II series of SSDs, targets mainstream upgraders
Available in capacities ranging from 120- to 960GB, with the 240GB model selling for $115.News
SSD prices for hybrids, ultrathin laptops to flatten next year
A shortage may stall SSD prices, but the cost-per-gigabyte will continue to declineNews
Western Digital’s $299 6TB WD Red is a big hard drive for small(ish) budgets
Western Digital has shipped the 6TB WD Red and WD Green modelsBehind the Spec Sheet
Cloud storage vs. external hard drives: Which really offers the best bang for your buck?
We break down the cost per gigabyte for different ranges of storage. The answer may surprise you.News
HP says its all-flash array now matches fast disks on price
The 3Par StoreServ 7450 is getting new SSDs and softwareNews
Intel revs up enterprise flash drives with PCIe
A line of SSDs will use the high-speed interface and the emerging NVMe specification for high performance, Intel saysNews
Sanho’s iStick bridges iOS/OS X gap to ease file transfer
The storage device features both USB and Lightning connectorsNews
IBM and Fujifilm show super dense storage tape for big data work
With IBM and Fujifilm technology, tomorrow's LTO tape cartridges could store up to 154TB of data eachNews
Sony develops tape tech that could lead to 185 TB cartridges
Sony has created a magnetic tape material that can store up to 74 times more data per unit area than materials in use todayNews
Lost Andy Warhol art recovered from 1980’s Amiga floppy disks
And it all started with a YouTube video.News
Micron ups endurance, capacity of SSDs to meet data center demand
Micron ships M500DC SATA SSDs with capacities from 120GB to 800GB, priced at $1 per gigabyte
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HP talks up faster speed of Z Turbo Drive PCI-Express SSDs
HP's new SSDs will offer up to 512GB of storage and ship in May.News
VMware launches virtual SAN software
VMware's vSAN software harvests unused storage space on servers to park virtual disksNews
Seagate preps large-capacity storage drives for tablets
Seagate CFO Pat O'Malley says high-capacity storage will make it to some tablets this yearNews
Toshiba’s OCZ cranks up speed on new 3.2TB solid state drives
The Toshiba subsidiary's Z-Drive 4500 SSDs have software tools for caching
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Your backup drive needs a backup plan: Three ways to safeguard the data
Files on your backup drive may be as vulnerable as those on your PC, unless you take some important precautions.News
OCZ lives, debuting new SSDs with Toshiba’s backing
OCZ has begun life as a Toshiba storage subsidiary, with a new 480GB SSD.News
Three-year, 27,000 drive study reveals the most reliable hard drive makers
Who makes the most reliable hard drives? Backblaze's vast server farms may hold the answer.News
SSD prices face uncertain future in 2014
Technology advances fail to budge SSD buyers from trying to paying as little as they can for the most storage possible. But SSD pricing for 2014 is uncertain. Here's why.News
Shopping for last-minute tech gifts? Here’s our one stop guide
We've put our recommendations for best laptops, printers, scanners, and more in one convenient place.News
You live on your laptop. You need these accessories.
A comfy stand, a nice case, and other essentials that make your mobile life easier.News
Toshiba offers to buy failed SSD maker OCZ
Toshiba has offered to buy the assets of OCZ Technology, a solid-state drive manufacturer on the verge of bankruptcy.News
WD’s Black2 SSD/HDD combo drive promises to solve the capacity-versus-speed storage conundrum
Laptop users can now have SSD speed and HDD capacity in a single 9mm packageNews
25,000-drive study shines a light on how long hard drives actually last
After tracking 25,000 hard drives for 4 years, BackBlaze has some answers about the lifespan of hard drives—answers that involve bathtubs.News
New supercomputer uses SSDs as alternative to DRAM, hard drives
A new supercomputer being deployed this month in the U.S. is using solid-state drive storage as an alternative to DRAM and hard drives, which could help speed up internal data transfers.News
Western Digital’s HGST fills hard drives with helium to inflate storage capabilities
Hermetically sealed helium helps hard drives run cooler, sip less power, and fit more storage into the same space.News
Transporter network storage device cuts cost with bring-your-own-drive option
The new Transporter Sync provides all the features of the original, but you bring your own hard drive.News
Hadoop, Web 2.0 get a path to tape for cheap long-term storage
Spectra Logic's BlackPearl appliance is designed to easily move big data into tape libraries.News
Western Digital’s ‘My Cloud’ drive transforms your PC into a personal Dropbox
WD has done connected hard drives before, but My Cloud is all about simplicity.
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Seagate, TDK show off HAMR tech designed to jam more data into hard drives
Seagate Technology will demonstrate HAMR, a technology it's counting on to fit more data onto hard disk drives, at the Ceatec show this week.News
Red Hat continues to burnish Storage Server
Nearly two years after the purchase of Gluster, Red Hat continues to polish the scale-out storage software for enterprises, making it more compatible with cloud services and Microsoft enterprise software.
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Seagate to offer hard-drive failure insurance
Seagate announced plans Monday to offer data recovery and drive-replacement services for all its hard drives, provided the consumer pays an insurance fee up front.News
SSDs still maturing, new memory tech still 10 years away
Solid-state drive adoption will continue to grow and it will be more than 10 years before it is ultimately replaced by a new memory technology, experts said.News
Samsung sees vertical NAND boosting flash acceptance
3D V-NAND, a new technology for packing more data into flash chips, will dramatically increase the number of PCs and enterprise storage systems that use flash in the next decade, a Samsung Electronics executive said Tuesday.News
Business flash arrays pack in more storage with denser media
New NAND flash components fit more data into the same space, which reduces power consumption and per-gigabyte cost. The catch: Flash gets slower and more error-prone when it gets that denseNews