Flash drive per-gigabyte (GB) prices have dropped by more than 10% since March 2023 to an average of $0.075/GB this week. That’s down from around $0.09 per gigabyte six months ago. At the same time, ...

I have spent a lot of time optimizing my NAS to run quietly and power efficiently. One big way to achieve that is to have the drives run as briefly as possible — I had mine set up to spin down after ...

The impending demise of spinning rust storage devices has been greatly exaggerated, at least according to one new forecast. This further analysis says that hard drives will continue to dominate the ...

So when will the last spinning hard drive, by far the most common storage media in use, leave the corporate data center? The arguments for its demise are compelling, including eliminating the power ...

The Momentus XT includes a 7,200-rpm spinning hard drive in capacities of either 250, 320 or 500 GB, along with a 4-GB SSD. The integrated package boots a PC in half the time of a standard 5,400-rpm ...

SSDs might be super-fast, small, and convenient, but, let's face it, a little PCB with some NAND on it is nowhere near as cool as watching a spinning hard drive in action - it's like comparing a USB ...

Statistics on hard drive reliability just released by data-storage company Backblaze would seem to indicate it’s not a good idea to buy a Seagate hard drive. Of the 104,954 drives it uses, Seagate’s ...