If you have hard drives that no longer serve you, maybe due to limited storage or finicky operation, it might be time to finally get rid of them. First, if it does still work, consider ways you can ...

Synology’s new DSM update finally frees users from strict HDD control The 2025 DiskStation models now play nicely with almost any hard drive DSM 7.3 brings long-requested compatibility for WD and ...

Pro Satechi unveils Thunderbolt 5 docking station that doubles as external SSD — shame it doesn't take HDDs, and why doesn't it have video outputs anyway? Pro OWC debuts PCIe Gen4-class 8TB ...

macOS Tahoe quietly retires the old Mac drive icon in favor of a sleeker, SSD-inspired design. Tuesday's developer beta release of macOS Tahoe 26 brought a bit of sad news. The old Macintosh HD icon ...

Western Digital says it's created an initiative to retrieve rare earth metals from hard drives that are being cycled out of data centers. The tech company, best known for its digital storage products, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. “Obviously” is a dangerous word, even in scenarios that seem simple. Suppose, for instance, you need to do an important computation. You ...

“Obviously” is a dangerous word, even in scenarios that seem simple. Suppose, for instance, you need to do an important computation. You get to choose between two computers that are almost identical, ...

A growing number of buyers have reported purchasing supposedly new Seagate data center-grade hard drives, only to discover that they had been previously used for thousands of hours. A recent ...

Seagate announced shipments of Exos M hard disk drives, HDD, samples to customers with up to 36TB storage capacity. These HDDs use the company’s Mozaic 3+ heat assisted magnetic recording, HAMR, ...

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In this podcast, Antony Adshead is joined by Jason Feist, senior vice-president for marketing in products and markets at Seagate, to look at how spinning disk can get to 40TB and 50TB. We talk about ...

Rivian invited us to come up and drive its new tri-motor “R1 Tri” spec vehicle through the hills of Malibu. Here’s what we thought about the drive. The new tri-motor Rivian, which Rivian is simply ...