SSD capacities set to surge as industry eyes 128 TB drives
Maximum SSD capacity is expected to double from its current 61.44 TB maximum by mid-2025, giving us 122 TB and even 128 TB drives, with the prospect of exabyte-capacity...
All taped up: Quantum’s hyperscaler tape sales dive hits bottom line
Quantum’s latest results show that the collapse of its hypescaler tape business caused a significant revenue dip. The biz has also performed some finance restructuring.
The company has been grappling...
WD loses hard drive patent lawsuit, owes $262M damages
A California jury has awarded MR Technologie of Germany $262 million in patent infringement damages in a jury trial against Western Digital.
MR Technologie (MRT) sued Western Digital in August...
Toshiba’s video surveillance disk drive rocket
Toshiba says it has increased the S300 Pro’s surveillance disk drive’s transfer rate by doubling its cache capacity.
The 3.5-inch form factor S300 Pro uses conventional magnetic recording with 4,...
Storage news roundup – 9 August 2024
Cloud storage provider Backblaze pulled in $31.3 million revenues during calendar Q2, up 27 percent YoY, and it reported a $10.3 million loss versus the $14.3 million net loss...
Backblaze drive type profiling predicts replacement and migration
Cloud storage provider Backblaze is developing drive type profiling models to optimize its drive replacement and migration strategies.
The work is detailed in the latest edition of its quarterly disk...
IEEE report: When it comes to SSD and HDD tech roadmaps, money talks
An IEEE report sees no mass takeover of the disk drive market by SSDs because HDD cost/bit is decreasing fast enough to prevent SSDs catching up.
The International Roadmap for...
Western Digital’s recovery accelerates
Revenues in Western Digital's fourth fiscal 2024 quarter, ended July 341, were $3.76 billion, 41 percent higher year-on-year and beating its $33 billion outlook, with a $330 million profit...
VDURA argues HDD systems are greener than flash arrays
HPC storage supplier VDURA is claiming that disk drive arrays are more environmentally friendly than all-flash arrays in terms of their total carbon emissions.
VDURA – the rebranded Panasas –...
Seagate signals turnaround with strong Q4 performance
Seagate signaled that the disk drive sales slump is ending with a revenue increase for Q4 2024.
Revenues were up 18 percent annually to $1.89 billion, beating its $1.85 billion...
StorONE partners with Accessium Group to provide storage for healthcare
StorONE is the basis for Accessium Group's HIPAA-compliant storage offering for the healthcare market.
The StorONE S1 offering provides scale-out and performant block, file, or object storage with auto-tiering between...
Backup bods at ExaGrid claim sales boosted in latest quarter
Privately owned ExaGrid says it added 137 new customers for its deduping backup target appliances in the latest quarter, claiming it added 64 six- and seven-figure deals to break...