Hot stuff Heat-assisted magnetic recording is set to boost the storage capacity of hard disks still further. (Courtesy: Seagate Technology) When it comes to storing data, you might think that magnetic ...

HDD shipping capacity and revenue are projected to be over 6.5EB and between $25B and $35B by 2030. We project magnetic tape will ship over 400EB by 2030.

ON September 14th 1956 IBM announced the first commercial computer to use a magnetic hard disk for storage. Weighing in at about 1,000 kilograms, the 305 RAMAC (random access method of accounting and ...

Researchers explore alternative recording systems using light and microscopic dots and dashes. From clay tablets to magnetic tape, civilizations have found ways to store important information; however ...

This will be the first in a series of three blogs on advances in digital storage and memory and the systems built with these technologies and how that will impact the storage industry going into 2021.

Researchers in the Netherlands say they have come up with a way of using lasers to speed up magnetic hard drives by a factor of 100. A paper published by Daniel Stanciu of the Nijmegen Science ...

Magnetic hard disk technology is approaching its limits. Nature Photonics spoke to William Challener, Ed Gage and Mark Re from Seagate about their demonstration of heat-assisted magnetic recording.

(1) Devices that use magnetic hard disks for storage. It often refers to portable devices such as digital music players that have hard disks rather than flash memory. All desktop and laptop computers ...

There is little doubt that solid state disks have become a disruptive force for datacenter storage and have bright future. Their steady rise, either in all-flash arrays or disk-flash hybrid systems, ...

If you've ever tried to "zero all data" on your computer's magnetic hard disk, you know it can take hours. A Japanese company has created a device that will instantly erase all the data on a drive, a ...