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Operationally, solid state drives (SSD) use less power. But research finds the manufacturing process is tilted in favor of hard disk drives (HDD).
Replication excels at providing immediate data availability, but it shouldn’t be the sole safeguard against human errors, data corruption, or cyberattacks.
Secure Data Recovery examined failure rates and lifespans of 2,007 hard drives from six manufacturers.
Storage vendor Vast Data adds built-in metadata index, called the Vast Catalog, which details every bit of data stored on its arrays.
Hardware durability metrics are drawn from the cloud storage provider’s portfolio of more than 230,000 hard drives under management.
Tests by Meta and Iceotope find that new, sealed hard disk drives can be given precision liquid cooling that is more even than air cooling.
Seagate's Exos 2X18 features multiple drive heads that enable it to match SATA SSD speeds.
News includes upgrade of Dell’s APEX data storage services to provide more secure backup storage in a pay-per-use consumption model.
TrendForce Research predicts that oversupply of SSDs will lead to price cuts as much as 20%.
VMware eases the use of SmartNICs based on digital processing units to handle networking, security, storage, and other processes, freeing up enterprise-server CPU cycles.