Optical storage can last a century, give faster access to data, and is backward compatible with earlier optical technology, yet disk drives and tape rule in long-term storage. Optical media is the ...

Western Digital’s Innovation Day showed their plans to introduce 100+TB HAMR HDDs with 2X or higher performance by 2029 and ...

Logan G. Harbaugh is a longtime technology journalist with experience reviewing a wide range of IT products. Virtual storage appliances (VSAs) give traditional disk arrays a run for their money.

Eric Brewer and colleagues from Google presented an interesting white paper at the Usenix FAST conference in Santa Clara, CA. They argue that with the growth in portable devices and services in the ...

Any s torage consolidation effort must involve a serious consideration of disk subsystems and the specific disk types that those systems will contain. As an example, there may be hundreds (even ...

This could've been the best long-term storage format, so why did it fail?