Western Digital spins down HGST and Tegile brands in hard disk market shuffle Your email has been sent More than six years after acquisition, the HGST name is disappearing from drives, though ...

Cloud storage provider Backblaze released its drive reliability numbers for the last quarter of 2016, illustrating that two hard drive manufacturers just might produce the most reliable drives on the ...

Cloud backup provider Backblaze has published more of its hard drive reliability data, giving a look at the company’s experiences with its 56,224 hard disks in 2015. In 2014, HGST was the standout ...

HGST (Formerly Hitachi's hard drive division) has been talking about its helium storage devices for several years and the firm is finally ready to ship the new drives for enterprise deployments. The ...

Areal density increases are coming slowly as the drive industry gears up for patterned media and heat-assisted magnetic recording. Both require large investments before mass production. Instead, the ...

HGST’s Deskstar NAS 6TB drive comes in right on par with the WD Red drive where you get a lot of storage for a tiny price per GB. You can pick up a Deskstar NAS 6TB at NewEgg for $289.99, Scan UK for ...

The why of helium-filled - or, as HGST's marketing styles it, HelioSeal - disk drives is easy. Helium has 1/7th the density of air. That means: Less drag on disks and head actuators. Less drag means ...

No, we didn't, intentionally or unintentionally, make an error in this title, nor did HGST. Formerly known as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the now Western ...

A year ago we got some insight into hard disk reliability when cloud backup provider Backblaze published its findings for the tens of thousands of disks that it operated. Backblaze uses regular ...

In an oddly timed bit of scheduling, HGST Inc., (formerly known as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) rolled out a bevy of new products during Apple’s iPhone 6 reveal and Intel’s IDF keynote. One ...

With products expected in 2013, the new platform enables HGST to go beyond its award-winning five-platter design, providing a path for higher capacity storage and lower customer TCO for years to come.

Hitachi is reportedly in talks with U.S. investment fund Silver Lake over the sale of its HGST hard-disk drive maker, however there are disagreements on price Hitachi is considering a shake-up of ...