Multiple hard drive manufacturers were caught shipping SMR drives to consumers, but only Western Digital put them in its NAS product line. That decision has won the company a class action lawsuit.

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Although Network-Attached Storage devices are used for simple tasks like backup, file-sharing, and data archival, the NAS rabbit hole goes pretty deep. While the CPU and RAM aren’t as important as, ...

SSDs are increasingly popular these days, but there's still plenty of demand for large spinning disks in the enterprise sector and still some home users who prefer sheer capacity to raw speed when ...

SMR technology offers higher density, lower prices and performance Seagate has announced its first drive based on shingled magnetic recording (SMR), a new technology that could give mechanical drives ...

A Spinning Potato: It's 2024, and hardware manufacturers are still competing to see who can produce the highest-capacity hard disk drives on the market. Seagate recently introduced its HAMR-powered ...

In a move set to shake up the storage industry, Toshiba has unveiled its latest advancements in hard disk drive technology, introducing both 24TB Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) and 28TB ...

Western Digital has pushed the capacity of its spinning disk hard disk drives (HDDs) by 2TB (terabytes) with the addition of an 11th platter. That has manifested in two new drives, the standard ...

Number three in the hard drive maker’s league, Toshiba, has announced products of 24TB and 28TB. These are the 24TB MG11, which is conventional magnetic recording (CMR) HDD technology, and the 28TB ...

First of all, not everyone wants or needs 10TB and above driver on their HOME/SMB(lab) prosumer NAS/SAN (which is what the Synology + series is about) Disks in the 5400RPM are usefull for low power, ...