Forward-looking: Western Digital remains one of the world's largest hard drive manufacturers, although it trails Seagate in adopting the latest recording technologies. However, the company has ...

In context: Shingled magnetic recording (SMR) can increase storage density on hard drives by partly overlapping data tracks, but it also brings slower performance in writing operations compared to ...

Western Digital announced a raft of new products yesterday aimed at both regular consumer PCs and big businesses with storage-hungry servers. The headliners are two new hard drives with huge ...

After a couple of decades of talk, Seagate announced earlier this year that it was shipping samples of huge 32TB hard drives using heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). The new kind of drive ...

The new My Passport range of HDDs is now available with a maximum capacity of 6TB. That's a lot of storage to put in a pocket. We’re all using more and more data. With photos, videos, music files and ...

You always need more space, right? Whether you need a hard drive for recording video or something to store your music on so you can access it even while you're at a coffee shop or just a new card for ...

Intevac, a maker of thin-film processing systems, has disclosed that it had landed orders from another customer for a machine that processes magnetic films for HAMR media. Intevac hasn't disclosed ...

It's been a while since the tech world heard about a brand-new 2.5-inch hard drive. The technology seemed to peter out at 5TB long ago, while the rise of SSDs made 2.5-inch hard drives a dead-end ...

Western Digital (WD) is investigating potential problems with some older hard drives. The manufacturer is thus responding to reports from data recovery specialists who are drawing attention to ...

Western Digital is looking into reports of hardware failures in some of its older hard drives that use Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology. The investigation comes after several European data ...