This mini PC has a detachable docking station that hides a hard drive, and I am not convinced whether it's a good idea
Ninkear MBOX 8 Pro is a modular mini PC with a bold storage experiment that challenges conventional design, but its ...
Google's Colossus internal storage system still relies on HDDs for storing most of its data
In a recent blog post, Google revealed some of the "secrets" hiding behind Colossus, a massive network infrastructure the ...
Numbers, please! 3.75 megabytes of memory - The world's first hard disk
The IBM 350, the world's first hard disk, was released in 1956. As the RAMAC computer's memory, it had space for 3.75 ...
Seagate reportedly sold two billion GBs worth of storage to two of the world's largest tech companies
In a recent The Wall Street Journal article, John Keilman wrote an article covering Seagate’s “fight to store the world’s ...
Seagate begins work on NVMe HDDs for cost-effective AI workloads
Seagate recently introduced a novel approach to HDD development and evolution, bringing magnetic storage and NVMe together in ...
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Bespoke Storage Technologies: The Alphabet Soup Found In Modern Hard Drives And Beyond
Hard drives originally used Longitudinal Magnetic Recording (LMR), where the poles of the magnet grain were flat on the surface of the disk. This took up a lot of space, so they aligned the grains ...
Has Seagate scored a game-changing deal? World's largest HDD vendor buys HAMR company, critical to 100TB HDD goal
Seagate is set to buy a specialist in HAMR HDD production, a move which will be bad news for rivals Western Digital and ...
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The third plasmonic revolution
Figure 1: Areal density (on a log scale) versus year for different forms of magnetic HDD technology. Magnetic recording media are made from ferromagnetic materials, such as Fe, Co, Ni and their ...