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Your 8TB HDD might seem big now, but 120TB drives are on the way
By Paul Lilly published
News Seagate's roadmap points to much more capacious HDDs in the coming years.

HDDs are not dead, they accounted for over 1ZB (a lot) of shipped capacity last year
By Paul Lilly published
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
By Paul Lilly published
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
By Paul Lilly published
News Cloud backup firm Backblaze posted HDD failure stats for the first quarter.

SSDs have virtually killed off laptop HDDs in Western Europe
By Paul Lilly published
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
By Paul Lilly published
News The hard drive is alive and well, as far as Seagate is concerned.

How to format a hard drive, USB stick, or SSD
By Corbin Davenport published
Ask PC Gamer There's more to it than you might think.

This 5TB Toshiba X300 hard drive is only $100 on Newegg
By Corbin Davenport published
Deals Lots of storage for not a lot of money.
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