Storage has come a long way in recent years, from hard disk drives to solid-state drives, and now that we're multiple generations deep into the SSD reign, it has to be said: the HDD is not dead.

The folks at Backblaze, a cloud storage and data backup company located in San Mateo, California, published a report comparing the failure rates of solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs ...

As of December 2025, the largest hard disk drive released has a capacity of 36TB. Seagate added the Exos M (ST36000NM003K) ...

Computers use two main types of storage: hard disk drives and solid-state drives. Both store your files, applications and operating system, but they work differently. These differences significantly ...

If you’re weighing up the differences between an SSD and HDD for PC gaming – we’ve covered the essentials for you here. SSDs have been around for a while now, but for many still gaming on a HDD (Hard ...

With AI’s power demands intensifying, SSDs are primed to overtake HDDs as the default choice for maximizing performance, ...

The latest storage report from Backblaze, a cloud backup firm with oodles of data and stats to share, is live with some interesting comparisons between its crop of solid-state drives (SSDs) that have ...

There's no beating around the bush: An all-SSD NAS can be significantly more expensive than an all-HDD or a hybrid option.

There have been quite a few technology wars in my lifetime. VHS vs DVD, CD vs MP3, Blu-Ray vs HD DVD - I mean, even Twitch vs Ustream was pretty entertaining. One that's been silently trundling on ...

Windows 10 isn’t scheduled to “sunset” for another two years (and a month, since I’m writing this in early September), but I’m already executing on a hardware replacement plan for my Microsoft Surface ...