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You can buy Seagate's largest hard disk drive right now but don't think you can use it anywhere — 25TB Exos X26z HDD is affordable but requires special equipment to work
We wrote about the Exos X26z, the largest hard drive Seagate makes, back in December 2023. The 25TB enterprise HDD is a host-managed shingled magnetic recording (HM-SMR) unit that doesn’t work ...
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The Biggest Change To HDD Tech You've Never Heard Of, Yet
Hard drive capacity jumped from 50 GB to 500 GB. Now with shingled magnetic recording, data is stored in blocks that overlap one another like shingles on a roof. That allows twice as much data to ...
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Toshiba unveils 28TB hard disk drive to compete with Western Digital and Seagate — but is it too little too late for the Japanese outfit?
Toshiba has announced its Mx11 family of hard disk drives, aiming to challenge the ... which reaches 28TB with shingled magnetic recording (SMR). Both models are designed to address the growing ...
Western Digital: Invest For The AI Aftershock
Innovations in shingled magnetic recording enabled Western Digital to offer high-capacity, high-quality hard disk drives. Read why WDC stock is a Strong Buy.