Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage
Japanese PC shops limit SSD, HDD, and RAM purchases to prevent hoarding as storage and memory shortage takes hold
IBM announced the world’s first HDD, the 3.75MB RAMAC 350 disk storage unit, 69 years ago today — unit weighed more than a ton, 50 platters ran at 1,200 RPM
Western Digital and Microsoft launch HDD recycling program to recover rare earths from e-waste | The recycling initiative recovers 90% of rare earths from data center hard drives
U.S. tariffs to heavily impact HDD and SSD manufacturers, increasing costs | Storage could get significantly more expensive due to tariffs.
I used an external HDD after a decade, and it was surprisingly good
Seagate joins the HDD price hike party, blames AI for spike in demand
More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities
