Thanks to a new technology being developed by Seagate, called shingled magnetic recording (SMR), hard drives now have clear path beyond the 1TB-per-platter barrier that has existed since around 2010.

What is SMR and what it can enable? What applications are ideal for SMR pairing? How to tell if SMR storage solutions are right for your data center. Driven by an explosion of data creation and ...

Toshiba is the latest company to acknowledge which of its consumer products use slower SMR technology instead of CMR, but it may be harder to avoid the company's hard drives without additional info.

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 ...

Hard drives are still alive and kicking, and companies such as Toshiba continue to push the envelope in terms of performance and data density. And this is exactly what the company is doing with their ...

Last year, Dropbox talked about making a shift to Shingled Magnetic Recording, or SMR disks for short, because of the efficiency they can give a high-volume storage platform like theirs. Today, ...

Earlier this month, Western Digital announced retail availability of its Gold 16TB and 18TB CMR drives, as well as an upcoming 20TB Ultrastar SMR drive. These nine-platter disks are the largest ...

Toshiba has demoed 32TB (terabyte) and 31TB hard disk drives (HDD) that use heat- and microwave-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR and MAMR) plus shingled drive tracks to boost capacity over existing ...

It seems like just yesterday (maybe for some of you it was) we were installing Windows 3.1 off floppy drives onto a 256 MB hard drive, but hard drives have since gotten a lot bigger and a lot more ...

Seagate’s new SMR technology will increase its 2014 hard disk drive (HDD) capacities by 25% and take that to 20TB by 2020. It's also attacking the tablet flash drive market with a new Ultra Mobile ...

Driven by an explosion of data creation and retention needs, hard-disk-drive (HDD) storage capacities and data-center densities are rapidly expanding thanks to a technology called shingled magnetic ...