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5 Signs Your Storage Drive is About to Fail
#ThrowBackThursday Like all electronic devices, PCs don't last forever, and the parts inside them will eventually fail. While it's easy to replace a broken device, the same can't be said for the data stored in your machine.
Explainer: What is a File System?
There are many different ways to organize files and directories in a computer, but in the abstract of how that happens at the hardware and OS level is typically assigned to the file system. This is how it works.
Western Digital talks about the road to 30TB hard drives
Company sees HAMR as important, doesn't mention MAMR
5 Ways to Connect Your Old Storage Devices to a New PC
If you're upgrading to a new computer, laptop or desktop, a modern PC may not support your old storage devices. This guide will give you options to connect your old storage drives to a new computer.
Western Digital's 20TB hard drive is available this month for $680
But it's unclear when you'll get it
SpaceSniffer lets you recover disk space with minimum effort
SpaceSniffer is a handy free tool to analyze your drive and visualize where big folders and files are placed. You can browse by largest file size or filter your search by date and format.
Backblaze data shows SSD failure patterns on trend with HDDs
Cloud storage provider confirms they are burning through SSDs as quickly as HDDs
Seagate making progress on second-generation HAMR tech, 30-terabyte HDDs incoming
The company is going all-in on HAMR
Chia miners are trying to sell potentially degraded plotting drives
Chia miners sow the seeds of discontent in the used hardware market, list degraded SSDs as "new"
WD's new 20TB HDDs combine 9 spinning platters with iNAND UFS memory
Unlike traditional SSHDs that store user data on faster memory, these drives store metadata from HDD ops to boost performance
Samsung led the SSD market by a wide margin in Q2 2021
Overall SSD shipments were flat in the second quarter
HDD makers shipped a record amount of storage in Q2 2021
Hard drives are still selling like hotcakes
5 Ideas to Improve and Bring New Life into Your Old PC Case
If your PC case is several years old, you may feel like you could do with some convenience or utility features that it's missing and it's not a replacement that you want but some useful add-ons.
Coating HAMR HDD platters with graphene could increase storage capacity by up to 10 times
Graphene layers may increase disk drives' storage density as much as 10 TB per square inch
Even hard drives will get to use the super-fast NVMe 2.0 interface
NVMe now welcoming disk drives -- A farewell to SATA?
SSD shipments outpaced HDDs by 3:2 last quarter, but hard disks still lead the storage race
99 million solid-state drives were shipped in Q1
10+ Ways to Free Up Space in Windows
With games now taking up dozens of gigabytes, and Windows updates needing more space than they used to, you may find your drive filling up more often. Here are a few tricks to help you clear clutter and free up space in Windows.
Seagate shares data sheet for hard drives based on Mach.2 dual actuator technology
Hard drive manufacturers are still innovating
Backblaze's latest storage reliability figures add SSD boot drive failure rates to the mix
As expected, solid state storage fails far less often than mechanical drives
The Best PC Storage: SSD, HDD, External Drives & NAS
Fast storage has become a true commodity and hopefully it will only get bigger and faster. Today's best choices are differentiated by how extreme you want to go and how willing you are to pay for the very best.
Which company invented the hard disk drive?
The first commercial hard disk drive was shipped in 1956