Western Digital has announced the availability of two new drives that set industry records in capacity: the 26TB CMR HDD and the 32TB UltraSMR HDD.

Backblaze has released its Q2 2024 Drive Stats report, which presents a thorough analysis of the performance and reliability of HDDs and SSDs used in its data centers.

The WD Gold 24TB Enterprise HDD offers a 2TB increase over its preceding 22TB model, a nice bump for dense storage servers.

The Seagate Exos X24 offers up to 24TB of capacity with SATA or SAS interface, a moderate increase of 2TB over the prior 22TB HDD.

The WD Gold 24TB hard drives bring a progressive step forward in capacity while improving performance and power efficiency a little bit too.

Seagate has launched the IronWolf Pro 24TB HDD, expanding its portfolio in the NAS market.

The Seagate Exos X26z is a host-managed SMR hard drive, created exclusively for Seagate’s largest customers who control their stacks and can take advantage of these specialized, high-capacity drives. A word of warning though, don’t try this at home!

Western Digital (WD) is now shipping a new series of 24TB CMR HDDs for hyperscale, cloud, and enterprise data center customers, marking a significant advancement in the storage technology landscape. In addition, WD is also ramping up the new 28TB SMR HDD, as the 26TB model has reached nearly half of its data center exabytes

Seagate has expanded its Exos X lineup with the Exos X24 hard drive, boasting a remarkable 24TB storage capacity. Aimed at hyperscale customers and enterprises running scale-out data centers, the Seagate Exos X24 sets a new benchmark for rack-space efficiency and total cost of ownership. The 3.5-inch 7200 RPM nearline drive leverages helium technology and