At its Innovation Day 2026 event, Western Digital (now rebranded as WD) unveiled a customer-centric storage roadmap to reinvent hard drives for AI-era infrastructure, spanning 100TB+ HDDs, new performance- and power-optimized architectures, and an intelligent platform designed to improve storage economics and time-to-value. WD confirmed its 40TB UltraSMR ePMR drive is currently in customer qualification,

At Intersec 2026, Seagate announced new 32TB hard drives across its Exos, SkyHawk AI, and IronWolf Pro product lines, positioning them for AI-driven video analytics at the edge, NAS deployments, and large-scale data centers. Seagate SkyHawk AI 32TB IDC estimates that more than 75% of organizations expect their video data volumes to at least double

Backblaze has published its Q3 2025 Drive Stats and Network Stats reports, offering another data-rich look at the health and performance of its massive cloud storage infrastructure. With 332,915 drives under management as of September 30 (including 328,348 active data drives), this quarter’s analysis highlights key reliability trends, an increase in overall failure rates, and

This latest Backblaze report looks into the growth of high-capacity drives while tracking the long-term health of aging 12TB and under performers.

The Seagate IronWolf Pro 30TB HDD delivers robust NAS performance, unmatched capacity, and enterprise-grade reliability for multi-bay setups.

The Seagate Exos M 30TB HDD delivers groundbreaking capacity, performance, and efficiency for hyperscale, AI, and cloud storage environments.

Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC590’s CMR 11-platter design delivers higher raw capacity without any modifications to existing infrastructure.

Seagate advances HAMR tech with its Mozaic platform, laying the groundwork for 100TB hard drives to meet growing AI and hyperscale storage demands.

Backblaze has released DriveStats, the definitive Q1 2025 report on enterprise hard drive health.