Microsoft announced on Thursday that it now offers the Azure Ultra Disk solid-state drive (SSD) storage service commercially, or at the "general availability" stage, in a few Azure regions. The ...

Western Digital’s Innovation Day showed their plans to introduce 100+TB HAMR HDDs with 2X or higher performance by 2029 and filling multiple AI data center storage tiers.

Seagate's HDD strength and Pure Storage's flash innovation highlight starkly different bets in the booming $984B data storage ...

Windows 8 will include a new Storage Spaces feature that allows users to add physical disks into a virtual pool. Windows 8 will include a new Storage Spaces feature that allows users to add physical ...

Despite the many advantages of disk storage for backing up data, shipments of tape storage keep growing because for some jobs, tape is best. It might surprise some that despite the popularity of disk ...

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The very first disk drive in the world was a vertical rotating drum coated with magnetic material called the IBM 305 RAMAC, which still used vacuum tubes as its compute elements and weighed about a ...

Broadcasters wanting the most cutting-edge solutions for digital video storage can consider emerging solid state “flash” memory systems for professional use, but spinning disk drives and digital tape ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Cloning a storage disk is a great way to manage your digital data. Whether you want to use the cloned disk as a backup in case of a hardware ...

special report Storage hardware can't keep indefinitely storing more bits in the same amount of space. When will we run out of disk space, and what will we do when it happens? In a feature a couple ...

This could've been the best long-term storage format, so why did it fail?