Western Digital is responding to accusations from data recovery specialists. Affected users should contact the manufacturer.

Numerous Western Digital hard drives apparently have vulnerable firmware. It becomes dangerous at the latest when clicking ...

I feel like I'm the only person over here buying WD Golds for my NAS instead of WD Reds. Rather than admit fault and undo what they've done, they release a blog post ...

While most computer users usually prefer using SSD storage, Toshiba is announcing its brand new HDD offering. The new storage will be a 3.5-inch P300 Desktop PC Hard Drive. According to the story by ...

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Multiple hard drive manufacturers were caught shipping SMR drives to consumers, but only Western Digital put them in its NAS product line. That decision has won the company a class action lawsuit.

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 ...

In a move set to shake up the storage industry, Toshiba has unveiled its latest advancements in hard disk drive technology, introducing both 24TB Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) and 28TB ...

Last week, news broke that Western Digital, Samsung, and Toshiba were all shipping hard drives that used Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology in certain product lines without informing ...

In context: Shingled magnetic recording (SMR) can increase storage density on hard drives by partly overlapping data tracks, but it also brings slower performance in writing operations compared to ...

Western Digital has pushed the capacity of its spinning disk hard disk drives (HDDs) by 2TB (terabytes) with the addition of an 11th platter. That has manifested in two new drives, the standard ...

But the underlying inability of SMR to sustain long periods of heavy, small block, and non linear writes doesn't require a firmware bug. Click to expand... Sustain at full rate? No, none of them do.