RPM is often the most important statistic that sets two hard drives apart. Or so you might think, until you encounter SMR and ...

If you're looking for new hard drives to increase the storage capacity ... be rewritten without affecting any other sector on the drive. SMR is a newer technology that takes the same concentric ...

The bloom is on solid state drives that are faster and more reliable, use less energy and are quieter than their geriatric brethren -- hard disk drives. But it's way too soon to say goodbye to HDDs.

Western Digital Corporation (WDC) currently sells hard disks with a maximum ... the manufacturer is planning drives with 28 TByte (CMR) and 36 TByte (SMR) before the end of this year.