Latest about Hard Drives
HDDs are not dead, they accounted for over 1ZB (a lot) of shipped capacity last year
News Don't pour one out for the mechanical hard disk drive, it is still going strong in the era of solid state drives.
WD rebrands its Red hard drives after getting hit with a lawsuit
News The lawsuit accuses WD of switching some of its Red HDDs for models that use "inferior" technology.
Seagate's 16TB drive shines in latest HDD reliability report, but more data is needed
News Cloud backup firm Backblaze posted HDD failure stats for the first quarter.
SSDs have virtually killed off laptop HDDs in Western Europe
News A market research firm predicts that by the end of 2020, no new laptops sold in Western Europe will use an HDD as the primary storage.
Seagate is skipping the hard drive's funeral, plans to have 50TB HDDs in 2026
News The hard drive is alive and well, as far as Seagate is concerned.
How to format a hard drive, USB stick, or SSD
Ask PC Gamer There's more to it than you might think.
PC hard drives inch closer to joining floppy disks in the digital graveyard
News As SSD prices go down, so does the rate of HDD shipments.
This hard drive reliability report highlights why it’s important to back up your data
News A cloud backup firm analyzed over 100,000 hard drives.
