Backup bods Backblaze: Disk drive reliability improving Updated Seagate's spinners stopping spinning more often, though Storage03 May 2019 | 25
So you've 'seen' the black hole. Now for the interesting bit – how all that raw data was stored Wait, what do you mean 'helium disk drives aren't interesting'? Storage12 Apr 2019 | 142
Disk drives suck less than they did a couple of years ago. Which is nice Cloud backup bod Backblaze: Failure rates fell for high-cap spinners Storage28 Jan 2019 | 61
If you were a firm-swallowing storage giant, how WD you digest them all? Analysis Branding, real estate need sorting out Storage27 Jul 2018 | 2
Fancy a little TLC? WD woos data centre crowd with dual-port SAS write fiend Big jump in write speed Storage26 Jul 2018 | 1
Talk about a positive mental pl-attitude: WD Ultrastars shed disks without hit to capacity Revitalises midrange nearline air-filled tech Storage19 Jan 2018 | 14
It's hip to be in Gartner's square: Poor Panasas out on its NAS Qumulo, HGST, StorageCraft move in, crack open craft beers Storage19 Oct 2017 |
WDC's biz banquet has made it a chips-to-disks-to-systems monstrosity CEO Milligan has reshaped firm upwards and outwards Storage31 Aug 2017 |
HGST paints go-faster stripes on Ultrastar flash drive range The SS300 comes in 2bits/cell and 3bits/cell variants Storage17 May 2017 |
Unlucky WD Ultrastar drives are knackered, need replacing ASAP Bad batch of disks puts data at risk Storage13 Feb 2017 | 24
WDC loads its belt-fed drive cannon, blasts out disks 'n' cards galore Fat helium spinners and fast and fat flash stores Storage08 Dec 2016 | 14
Here's the relevant bits from VMworld, sliced and diced just for you VMworld New boxen and such, in handy A-Z format On-Prem30 Aug 2016 | 1
Ovation claps together private cloud storage service with HGST, Versity basis Entertaining archival store for media and oil-slinging types Storage23 Aug 2016 |
HGST has an entry-level 14PB archive box... is that enough for your, er, home collection? When you need 15 nines Storage13 Apr 2016 | 16
Seagate floats out 10TB HDD filled with lifting gas Catches up with HGST’s basic helium-filled drive tech Channel13 Jan 2016 | 26
Western Digital pushing archive data ideas Joins Active Archive Alliance ... which might now actually get activated Storage23 Dec 2015 | 3
WDC's shingle-free stocking filler: A 10TB helium disk drive HDD uses its head for gen 3 Helium drive areal density boost Storage02 Dec 2015 | 29
Western Digital begins navigating the non-volatile memory maze Comment Stifel: All-Flash storage array market will hit $6.9bn by 2019 Storage19 Nov 2015 | 4
HGST closing SSD plant in Malaysia – report MOFCOM decision starts to have real world ramifications On-Prem10 Nov 2015 | 8
Seagate moves head moneyman to undefined role, promotes new CFO Just look after ... er ... you know ... stuff On-Prem22 Oct 2015 |
SanDisk, we could make sweet flash music together, whispers WD First Unisplendour, then the MOFCOM OK, now this … maybe Channel20 Oct 2015 | 2
China finally says yes to WD-HGST union +Comment But sales, brands must extend betrothal 2 more years Storage19 Oct 2015 | 6
As 'cheap as tape': HGST’s disk array gets Commvault OK Helium-filled drives for tape-like cost archiving Channel01 Oct 2015 | 2
Supermicro's super Nexenta HGST superduper AFA NexentaStor flies with flash wings from HGST and fuselage from Supermicro Storage08 Sep 2015 |
Is SanDisk becoming an acquisition target as the market consolidates? ‘We don't comment on rumour or speculation’. But we do Channel04 Sep 2015 | 1
Damn well knew it! Seagate has helium drives in its labs Spinner's analyst day revelation Storage02 Sep 2015 | 14
Seagate births 8TB triplets and a 2TB mobile nipper Who says spinning rust is finished? Storage01 Sep 2015 | 22
WD storage technology exec defects to rivals Seagate Takes advantage of California's dim view of non-competes On-Prem18 Aug 2015 | 5
HGST sets hearts aflutter with second sexy PCM demo Plenty of sizzle so far, but no product steak to speak of yet Storage10 Aug 2015 | 2
Will the PC glory days ever return, WD asks as its finances slip Disk units and revenues spin down as desktop market declines Channel30 Jul 2015 | 23
China's STILL holding up the full WD-HGST integration. Why? Comment There's an elephant. In this room, with us Storage10 Jul 2015 | 24
HGST shimmy shimmy shingles its way to a 10TB spinning rust drive Ten whole terabytes? Yes indeed – but there's a catch... Storage09 Jun 2015 | 17
Seagate's third quarter results looking lacklustre as profits tumble Getting a bit tired are we? Need a lie down? Channel20 Apr 2015 | 2
HGST says its NVMe flash card will manage 750,000 IOPS Three quarters of a million, random read. Speedy? You bet Storage13 Apr 2015 | 7
HGST's Active Archive System and the 'currency of the new economy' Need for speed now entails a dash for cash On-Prem08 Apr 2015 |
Helium-filled drive tech floats to top of HGST heap Noble gas-filled enclosures reduce power use, spin faster, have high, squeaky voices Storage25 Mar 2015 | 31
HGST goes on Himalaya expedition with Amplidata purchase Object storage is no object On-Prem04 Mar 2015 |
Helium HDD prices rise way above air-filled spinning rust Squeaky voice time for HGST as trad drives come in cheaper Systems06 Feb 2015 | 28
Seagate's spinning rust most likely to crash, claims backup biz PLEASE! They're using consumer drives in enterprise gear, says firm Channel23 Jan 2015 | 43
Grow, grow, Grohe, you gloat. Well done that sales team. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, profit is just a dream Welcome to Barracuda's world Storage14 Jan 2015 | 3
Toshiba tosses out uber-slim THREE TERABYTE HDD Didn't need no steenkin' shingles, either Channel13 Jan 2015 | 17
G-Tech goes full lumberjack with drive for hard storage heroes CES 2015 HGST RaW spinner rival to Rugged RAID Storage07 Jan 2015 | 2
HOW MUCH did WD pay for Skyera? Join the dots, work it out Comment WD gros fromage: It wasn't $400m On-Prem17 Dec 2014 | 4
Drive-making kingpin WD gobbles Skyera... to give to HGST Flash array packing density king bought Channel15 Dec 2014 | 8
WD and HGST: We tried to merge our two drive makers, MOFCOM said NO, NO, NO Analysis Chinese regulations cost $$$ Channel10 Dec 2014 | 8
Violin Memory hires ex-Egnyter to add heat to global channel sales Fills hole left by Hoppe Channel04 Dec 2014 | 1
Who's that at the door, storage box flingers? It's the hard drive makers. No, they are not smiling Analysis Nice treasure chest ye have there. Shame if it fell overboard Storage19 Sep 2014 | 6
Aggressive HGST hurls flashy humdingers at online archiving Comment Sooner or later a big player's going to catch one in the eye Channel18 Sep 2014 | 7
Hey, Mac fanbois. HGST wants you drooling over its HUGE desktop RACK What vast digital media repository could possibly need 64 TERABYTES? Personal Tech17 Sep 2014 | 27
Seagate's BUMPER State of the Storage Nation announcement Analysis Wannabe 'digital data steward' speaks to the masses HPC15 Sep 2014 | 4
Behold our SPINNING DATA GRAVE: WD carts out 6.3TB cold storage drive Bring out yer disks, bring out yer disks... Storage10 Sep 2014 | 21
Whopping 10TB disks spin out of HGST – plus 3.2TB flash slabs That's not a typo. 10,000GB on spinning platters in helium Storage09 Sep 2014 | 44
WD punts cash at ... no, it couldn't be... another 'tape library killer'? +Comment HGST developing drives for new AmpliStor array Storage09 Sep 2014 | 2
Flash to the Max: HGST, NEC ink SQL Server appliance deal Reference architecture for PCIe flash cards Systems13 Aug 2014 |
HGST brings PCM to flash show, stuns world+dog with 3 million IOPS Wrong tech for Flash Memory Summit - but damn, it's good HPC05 Aug 2014 | 5
HGST refreshes $685m flash tech: Go-faster FlashMAX PCIe card Lick of paint for ex-Virident product line Storage04 Aug 2014 |
HGST polishes Ultrastar SSD whoppers, stuffs with denser Intel flash They read faster but write slower Storage28 Jul 2014 | 10
THUD! WD plonks down SIX TERABYTE 'consumer NAS' fatboy Now that's a LOT of porn or pirated movies. Or, you know, other consumer stuff Storage22 Jul 2014 | 63
Disks with Ethernet ports? Throw in some flash and you've got yourself a HGST p-a-r-t-y Accepts net-drives are coming, follows Seagate Storage08 May 2014 | 21
G-Tech intros glossy HHD box: Because media 4Kers need external storage too NAB Feeding the Mac Pro beast Storage10 Apr 2014 | 4