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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

We've been watching the advance of solid state disk (SSD) as its ever improving price for capacity metrics make it an attractive replacement for relatively slow, spinning, mechanical disk media. Disk ...

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 ...

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

I have an 8 TB drive attached to my Win10 21H1 machine via USB3 and this docking station. I am trying to add this disk to 4-disk, two-way mirror Storage Space so that I can then remove one of the puny ...