Backblaze Blog, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2026
Backblaze's Q1 2026 drive report, delayed by a data anomaly, shows high-capacity drives excelling.
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Blocks & Files, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Backblaze: High-Capacity Disk Drives Are Looking Good
Backblaze's latest drive stats show high-capacity 20TB-plus drives delivering strong reliability.
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HighFens, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Why AI Storage Standards Matter for Enterprise AI Infrastructure
SNIA's open storage standards make storage a first-order AI design decision that cuts GPU idle time.
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SiliconANGLE, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Storage Gets Promoted in the Agentic AI Era
Agentic AI's massive context memory needs are making storage a strategic part of the inference engine.
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Blocks and Files, Tuesday, June 30th, 2026
GigaOm Object Radar Has 26 Platform Players vs Seagate
GigaOm's Object Storage Radar ranks 27 vendors, with Seagate the lone feature-led player among 26 platforms.
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SSOJet, Friday, June 26th, 2026
Who Can See This File? Bringing SSO-Grade Access Control to Enterprise Documents
Enterprises should extend SSO identity-based access control to document-level security to close permission gaps.
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Storage Switzerland, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
What Is AI-Driven Infrastructure?
AI-driven infrastructure uses intelligent assistants to automate routine IT tasks so admins can focus on strategy.
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StorageReview, Friday, June 19th, 2026
HighPoint Rocket 1604L Review: Four Gen5 M.2 SSDs, One Slot, 55.6GB/s
The HighPoint Rocket 1604L fits four Gen5 M.2 SSDs in one PCIe slot with near-native performance via retimer technology.
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StorageNewsletter, Thursday, June 18th, 2026
Recap of the 68th IT Press Tour in Boston, MA
Six storage and infrastructure companies presented backup, edge, and data protection innovations at Boston's IT Press Tour.
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TechRadar Pro, Tuesday, June 9th, 2026
Calculating the Business Value of Enterprise Storage Technology
Modern enterprise storage can deliver positive ROI in under a year through software-defined and flexible consumption models.
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StorageNewsletter, Monday, June 8th, 2026
Micron Shipping 245TB 6600 ION U.2 and E3.L Data Center SSDs
Micron is shipping its 245TB 6600 ION SSD, a high-capacity drive built for AI and hyperscale data center efficiency.
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TechTarget, Sunday, June 7th, 2026
What Is Erasure Coding and How Is It Different From RAID?
Erasure coding protects data by distributing encoded fragments across storage, offering more flexibility and fault tolerance than RAID.
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Redmond Magazine, Friday, June 5th, 2026
Data Hoarding: The Backup Problem
Letting data pile up rather than deleting it makes backups slower, costlier, and harder to recover.
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TechTarget, Monday, June 1st, 2026
Advantages and Disadvantages of Using a SAN
SANs deliver superior performance and scalability for enterprise storage but demand high investment and specialized expertise.
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TechTarget, Friday, May 15th, 2026
The Impact of Emerging Technologies on SANs
Emerging technologies like AI, ML, and NVMe are transforming SANs while introducing new security challenges.
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StorageSwiss.com, Monday, April 27th, 2026
Understanding Hypervisor Deduplication Efficiency Issues
Legacy hypervisor deduplication creates hidden storage and RAM cache inefficiencies that compound infrastructure costs.
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StorageReview, Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
TruenNAS Expands Enterprise Portfolio With V160 Hybrid Storage System
TrueNAS introduces V160, an enterprise hybrid storage system combining NVMe and HDD with up to 60 GB/s throughput.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
From SNIA: SCSI Continues to Innovate Data Storage with SBC-5
SCSI Block Commands-5 (SBC-5) introduces enhancements for HDD-based storage performance, management, and resiliency.
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OpenSource For U, Monday, April 13th, 2026
Data Deduplication Done The Right Way
Deduplication helps to save space on Linux-based storage systems. Choose the right platform and check whether it meets your goals.
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Forbes, Monday, April 13th, 2026
SSD Storage Capacity Prices Are Over 20 Times HDD Storage Capacity Price
The costs of storage to support AI and other enterprise workloads have exploded. Especially for solid state drives, SSDs, used for primary storage to support the high bandwidth memory, HBM, demand of graphical processing units, GPUs.
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Blocks&Files, Monday, April 13th, 2026
Sandook delivers pooled SSD performance-boosting management
MIT and Tufts University researchers have devized a performance-boosting management scheme for pooled SSDs that overcomes block-erase-and-write and garbage collection performance dips.
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Blocks & Files, Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
VDURA says 30 TB QLC SSD Capacity Now Costs 22.6x More Than HDD
VDURA says its Flash Volatility Index shows that, by Q1 2026, 30 TB QLC SSD capacity cost 22.6 times as much as equivalent 30 TB HDD capacity. The Flash Volatility Index provides a view of SSD pricing.
more → Search Storage, Thursday, March 26th, 2026
Key Features Of A Distributed File System
Distributed file systems enable users to access file data that is spread across multiple storage servers. A DFS should uphold data integrity and be secure and scalable.
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Search Storage, Thursday, March 26th, 2026
How To Optimize Data Storage Governance
Data governance manages the availability, usability, integrity and security of data. Follow these best practices for governance as it relates to data storage.
more → Search Storage, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
12 Ways To Manage Your Data Storage Strategy
Data storage systems were never easy to manage, and with spiraling capacities it's gotten even harder. Try these 12 techs and practices to help ease the storage management burden.
more → DCD, Monday, March 16th, 2026
A Million Hard Drives Go Offline Daily: The Massive Data Waste Problem
An increasingly urgent challenge facing data centers is the staggering volume of hard drives reaching end-of-life.
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Bitdefender, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
Seagate HAMRs Out Production Deal For 44TB Mozaic4+ Drives With Hyperscaler
Seagate's HAMR-based Mozaic 4+ drives have been qualified and put into production at least one leading hyperscaler, the storage vendor has revealed.
more → How-To Geek, Sunday, March 1st, 2026
The 2026 Storage Crisis: Why AI Data Centers Are Hoarding Every Hard Drive On The Market
HDDs were, until not too long ago, seen as the premier option for escaping price hikes as SSDs began being affected by the ongoing global RAM shortage.
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Blocks & Files, Monday, February 23rd, 2026
Hdd Is Back: The Return Of The Hard Drive
Other World Computing (OWC) sees disk drives returning to favor as NAND price rises and delivery shortages reduce SSD sales.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
StorageNewsletter Awards 2026 Winners
StorageNewsletter is pleased to announce today the winners of the inaugural 2026 Awards.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Backblaze Publishes 2025 Drive Stats Report: 13 Years Of Data Show Growing, Healthier Drive Fleet
Annual failure rate drops to 1.36% across 344,000+ drives; high-capacity models on the rise as first 26TB drives enter service
more → Blocks & Files, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Platters: WD New Disk Drive Tech Hits Lucky 14
WD, currently shipping 11-platter disk drives, announced, new disk drive technology with up to 14 platters, enabling an up to 27 percent capacity increase.
more → Search Storage, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Can AI Save The Storage Admin?
AI initiatives have created a surge of data, making traditional storage management insufficient. How much can AI help solve the issue it is creating?
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
R&D: Four Articles on HAMR, MAMR and SMR Disks
High-throughput SEM imaging of nanoscale metal grains for HAMR, quantifying erasure and interference from adjacent tracks in HAMR, cubic anisotropy media for MAMR, mitigating the Write-amplification effect of large-scale semi-external graphs on SMR drives
more → StorageReview, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Backblaze 2025 Year-End Drive Stats: Annual AFR Falls To 1.36% As High-Capacity Drives Dominate Fleet
Backblaze has now published 13 years of Drive Stats data, one of the most extensive longitudinal datasets on hard drive reliability in production environments. Over time, this dataset has become a valuable reference for understanding drive performance trends across models, capacities, and deployment conditions.
more → StorageReview, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
WD Maps Out 100TB+ HDD Roadmap and Performance Breakthroughs for AI Storage
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.
more → Solutions Review, Friday, January 30th, 2026
Debunking 4 Myths About HDDs
Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) have served as the backbone of the digital revolution for years - giving organizations a reliable storage medium for supporting the massive amount of data created, stored and archived each year.
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Networkworld, Monday, January 26th, 2026
Storage Shortage May Cause AI Delays For Enterprises
Enterprises are facing storage shortages, long lead times, and dramatic price increases, which may cause some to defer on-prem AI projects.
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ET Insights, Monday, January 19th, 2026
5 Reasons HDDs Will Continue To Dominate Enterprise Storage In The AI Era
Enterprises today are grappling with an unprecedented surge in data creation. Every interaction from video and images to logs, sensor outputs, and (AI-)generated content is contributing to an exponential rise in what businesses must store and analyze.
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Search Storage , Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
7 Storage Vendors Responding To Growing AI Demands
AI workloads are beginning to influence the products that storage vendors are offering. These are seven notable examples of storage vendors that are shifting their strategies.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
Hard Disk Drives: From Megabytes To The Terabyte Era And Beyond
The journey of HDDs spans more than 60 years, transforming from bulky, low-capacity storage devices to the high-density, cost-effective solutions of today.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
Why Storage Architecture is the New Bottleneck for HPC and AI Teams
Every year at Supercomputing, the conversations reveal where the industry's pressure points really are. This year in St. Louis, the pattern was unmistakable: as GPU clusters scale, organizations are hitting a wall that has nothing to do with compute power.
more → techradar, December 11,2025
10 Storage Technologies That Want To Replace Hard Drives
From enterprise storage to cold archives, these ideas rethink how data is stored
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Technative, December 11,2025
Flexibility Or Captivity? The Data Storage Decision Shaping Your AI Future
Why vendor data lock-in is common in enterprise IT and how to keep it at bay.
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Search Data Management, December 11,2025
4 Trends That Shaped Data Management, Analytics In 2025
With each relating to agentic AI development, tendencies included nearly universal support for MCP and rising emphasis on semantic modeling, among others.
more → Blocks & Files, Thursday, December 18th, 2025
The Storage Integration Problem That Breaks Infrastructure Automation
Why mess with APIs when you can integrate more fundamentally?
more → Search Storage, Thursday, December 18th, 2025
5 Storage Industry Predictions For 2026
2026 will likely see a number of trends regarding storage and infrastructure. Much of these trends come from already developing spaces like AI, security and digital sovereignty.
more → Search Storage, December 8,2025
A Dozen Data Storage Acronyms You Should Know
There are many acronyms people use in the data storage space. The following are 12 of the more commonly appearing acronyms.
more → Search Storage, December 8,2025
Top SAN Products Powering Enterprise ITStrategy
Selecting the right SAN products is vital to enabling a modern data strategy that drives operational efficiency and enterprise ROI.
more → information age, December 8,2025
Flash Storage Prices Are Surging - Why Auto-Tiering Is Now Essential
This article explores what you should do now that flash storage is becoming unsustainable for organisations
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