One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry's vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a wake-up call: Roughly ...

Seagate CEO Dave Mosley says AI is driving a structural shift in data storage demand, and the company's latest earnings back up that bold claim.

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At long last, engineers at Florida International University have found a way of breaking the 2D limitation of magnetic hard drive storage. By moving to three dimensions, the researchers have massively ...

A Spinning Potato: It's 2024, and hardware manufacturers are still competing to see who can produce the highest-capacity hard disk drives on the market. Seagate recently introduced its HAMR-powered ...

The first storage media — paper tape and punched cards — were inefficient, slow and bulky. These gave way to magnetic storage: core memory, drums and, finally, hard drives. For backup, there were ...

The computer's storage media prior to solid state drives (SSDs). Magnetic tape and disks were developed in the 1950s and commonly used together in companies for decades. Tape was the primary medium ...