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The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drives
Feature Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts
The State of Storage13 Jun 2025 | 32
HDD
A rigid, non-volatile storage device that lives in a drive unit and contains platters and magnetic disks that rotate at high speeds.
Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks
Reveals it ‘dramatically improved IOPS and throughput’ of its own storage with homebrew 'L4' automation and cache
The State of Storage27 Mar 2025 | 11
Hundreds of Dutch medical records bought for pocket change at flea market
15GB of sensitive files traced back to former software biz
Storage19 Feb 2025 | 41
Thailand spins up approval for Western Digital to make more spinning rust
Kingdom sees growing demand for hard disks and drives to maintain global dominance
Storage27 Aug 2024 |
Seagate joins the HDD price hike party, blames AI for spike in demand
Expect ongoing supply shortages this year, say storage analysts
Storage23 Apr 2024 | 4
AI boom is boosting demand even for HDDs, raising prices by up to 20% since Q3
No computer part, even spinning rust, is safe from the hype cycle
Storage10 Apr 2024 | 1
BROADER TOPICS
Backblaze's geriatric hard drives kicked the bucket more in 2023
Failure rates are consistent with aging – something we can all relate to
Storage13 Feb 2024 | 11
Western Digital execs vote to split biz in two: HDD and flash
Latest decision follows failure of Kioxia merger and pressure from activist investor Elliott Management
Storage30 Oct 2023 | 11
Seagate hit with $300m penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei
Felt it was on the right side of the law when shipping seven million drives worth $1.1 billion. Oops
Storage20 Apr 2023 | 16
Intel’s axed Optane biz spurts out mixed bag of new SSDs
Only one of the two new 3D XPoint-based drives offer a performance improvement
Storage11 Nov 2022 | 12
HDD Clicker gizmo makes flash sound like spinning rust
Made your old computer faster but too quiet? Here's a fun fix
Offbeat30 Sep 2022 | 41
Janet Jackson music video declared a cybersecurity exploit
Another reason not to play 1989's Rhythm Nation – it may mess with some hard disk drives
Security18 Aug 2022 | 133
Yes, it's true: Hard drive failures creep up as disks age
Some stats for those wondering when their models will be next
Storage03 Aug 2022 | 12
Seagate lowers production and sales forecasts amid weakening economy
US datacenter demand holding up, floundering in China. Consumers? 'Spending money on other things'
Storage22 Jul 2022 |
Elliott Management to WDC board: Spin out or sell flash biz
Updated HDD and NAND memory maker has 'underperformed by any objective measure'
Storage03 May 2022 | 9
Back up for a minute – Backblaze HD reliability stats show oldies can be goodies
Failure can be factored in when you're doing your sums, says vendor
Storage01 Feb 2022 | 14
Biting the hand that feeds IT
