People might take hard drives for granted these days. After all, their use of moving parts makes them less suited for mobile devices and their bulky sizes give off an "old school" vibe. Hard disks and ...

--- Edit --- ok Red SMR does have trim then, but unless the file system is NTFS or ext4, unsure if trim is supported on hardware raid,ZFS, Unraid at all (if no trim,then guess it doesn't matter if the ...

SSDs are increasingly popular these days, but there's still plenty of demand for large spinning disks in the enterprise sector and still some home users who prefer sheer capacity to raw speed when ...

Multiple hard drive manufacturers were caught shipping SMR drives to consumers, but only Western Digital put them in its NAS product line. That decision has won the company a class action lawsuit.

SMR technology offers higher density, lower prices and performance Seagate has announced its first drive based on shingled magnetic recording (SMR), a new technology that could give mechanical drives ...

Dropbox on Tuesday gave an update on its progress since deploying Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drive technology a year ago. The company said SMR drives have added hundreds of petabytes of new ...

A hot potato: Reports of WD, Seagate, and Toshiba quietly selling SMR disks have been confirmed by the respective manufacturers. SMR or shingled magnetic recording makes for denser and cheaper drives ...

While most computer users usually prefer using SSD storage, Toshiba is announcing its brand new HDD offering. The new storage will be a 3.5-inch P300 Desktop PC Hard Drive. According to the story by ...

Western Digital today announced the first 10TB hard disk drive (HDD) based on its HelioSeal Platform, which hermetically seals helium gas in the drive to decrease friction. The new 3.5-in. Ultrastar ...

I totally agree that WD sneaking in SMR drives and not making it clear is terrible; however, SMR is not itself a bad technology and I feel like the quest to show how bad it is leaves out the cases ...