Hard drive articles
Chia miners are trying to sell potentially degraded plotting drives
WD's new 20TB HDDs combine 9 spinning platters with iNAND UFS memory
Samsung led the SSD market by a wide margin in Q2 2021
HDD makers shipped a record amount of storage in Q2 2021
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
Even hard drives will get to use the super-fast NVMe 2.0 interface
SSD shipments outpaced HDDs by 3:2 last quarter, but hard disks still lead the storage race
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
Backblaze's latest storage reliability figures add SSD boot drive failure rates to the mix
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.
Seagate has shipped three zettabytes of storage since being founded
Seagate aims to have 100TB hard drives by 2030
Storage Game Loading Test: PCIe 4.0 SSD vs. PCIe 3.0 vs. SATA vs. HDD
What sort of storage do you need to play today's games and provide the best loading times? Do you need a PCIe drive? Do you need something with a DRAM cache? Let's find out.
HDD makers are speeding up development of higher capacity 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.
WD introduces 'Red Plus' branding for non-SMR HDDs
WD expands Gold series enterprise HDDs with 18TB model
Western Digital sued for secretly selling slower SMR HDDs
Network Attached Storage (NAS): What It Is and Why You May Want It
If you have multiple computers, chances are you've wanted to get a file from one system to another at some point. Maybe you have some files on your phone that you want on your laptop, or media on a PC that you want to stream to a smart TV. Maybe you want a secure location to back up all your important files to. In any of these cases, Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a great option.