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 ...

Hard disk drive (HDD) capacity and price are not the only ways to determine the choice of drive deployed. Other specifications such as connection protocol, energy efficiency and even how drives write ...

TOKYO — Showa Denko KK, a Japanese manufacturer of disks for hard disk drives, will build a new research-and-development center as part of an attempt to realize a coin-size drive that can hold 40GB of ...

Over the past few months, Computerworld has reviewed the latest in hard disk drive technology, from large-capacity 1TB models and energy-efficient “green” drives to solid-state disks that outpace ...

This data is from the C1Q 2024 HDD shipments from the May 2024 Digital Storage Technology Newsletter. Total HDD shipments in C1Q 2024 were up 3.0% compared with C4Q 2023 (29.7M versus 28.9M). Total ...