Seagate ‘submarines’ SMR into 3 Barracuda drives and a Desktop HDD
Some Seagate Barracuda Compute and Desktop disk drives use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology which can exhibit slow data write speeds. But Seagate documentation does not spell...
Shingled hard drives have non-shingled zones for caching writes
The revelation that some WD Red NAS drives are shipped with DM-SMR (Drive-Managed Shingled Magnetic Recording) prompted us to ask more detailed questions to the Blocks &...
Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording
Some users are experiencing problems adding the latest WD Red NAS drives to RAID arrays and suspect it is because they are actually shingled magnetic recording drives...
Nearline hard drive shipments carry on growing
Disk shipments in 2020’s first quarter show nearline drives taking up almost half of all HDD units and the majority of capacity and revenue. Shipments for all...
Infinidat: Our speedy storage arrays do not run any faster with Optane
Infinidat has no immediate plans to add Optane support because its memory-caching technology is already faster than Intel’s 3D XPoint.
In a press briefing...
NetApp tops customer survey for block and file storage
NetApp is ranked the top supplier for block and file storage by end users in a survey of European and US companies.
Coldago, a...
Hyperscalers keep server sales afloat. Enterprise storage vendors are less fortunate
Covid-19 has depressed demand for servers and data storage from transportation, hospitality and physical retail operation. At the same the pandemic has increased demand for video streaming,...
AWS adds cheaper HDD option for Windows file services
AWS has introduced a cheaper - and slower - disk storage option for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, which previously used flash memory only.
Every data storage product pic needs the human touch
So how to give a sense of scale or indeed liven up a boring product shot? Simple, use the human touch - as is literally the case...
Panasas assesses six new data storage technologies for HPC use case
Modern data storage technologies may deliver high speed data access but not all make the cut for the exacting demands of high performance computing (HPC) applications.
Dell’s external storage crown slips – just a little
Dell continues to dominate IDC's external OEM storage market numbers for 2019’s fourth quarter. But the company experienced a 6.4 per cent fall in revenue in a...
WD My Passport: 5TB of shingled disk capacity in my shirt pocket
I can store five terabytes in my shirt pocket with Western Digital’s My Passport portable drive.
The latest iteration of My Passport as released...
Seagate aims to deliver HAMR blow to WD nearline hard drives
Seagate thinks it will gain a HAMR-based competitive advantage over Western Digital - because its arch-rival is delaying a move to the HDD technology. It also...
Researchers show how magneto-optical drives could be cheaper and faster than HDDs
Physicists at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have altered a magnetic bit’s polarity with light, potentially opening the way to denser and faster...
Infinidat offers some services free to help customers with Covid-19 planning
Infinidat is offering unlimited capacity on demand and temporary swing capacity free of charge for 30 days, in response to a spike in customer demand fuelled...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Infinidat, Retrospect, Toshiba and more
In this week's data storage roundup, Infinidat has put things in place to support vSphere disaster recovery failover across metro distances while Retrospect make it simple and...
Western Digital hires Cisco exec as new CEO
Western Digital has appointed David Goeckeler, the head of Cisco’s networking and security Business, as its new CEO.
Goeckeler starts on March 9 and...
HPE storage sales remain flat despite adding SimpliVity HCI to the numbers
HPE storage revenues fell in Q12020, but the company was pleased even to maintain "flat sequential revenues competitive backdrop", CFO Tarek Robbiati said.
