In 2015 we ran 56,224 hard drives in our datacenter.  In this post we review the reliability of the Seagate, HGST, Toshiba, and Western Digital >>>

It appears that by 2017 3D flash could be the majority of SSD flash memory. If these chips reach cost parity with planar flash by >>>

Source: The SSD Endurance Experiment: They’re all dead – The Tech Report – Page 1

Encrypted data is often easily recovered, in some cases with no password required. Source: Western Digital self-encrypting hard drives riddled with security flaws

The crystal can store 360 terabytes of data, which would typically take about half a million conventional CDs. → Source: ‘Superman’ Memory Crystal Would Last >>>

Source: First light-based memory chip puts SSDs on notice

A fundamentally new approach to cache coherence has been released — the first in more than three decades. Whereas with existing techniques, the directory’s memory >>>

But a mesh of nanotubes, rather than individual molecules. Source: Static RAM created out of carbon nanotubes | Ars Technica

Says Seagate’s Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) development chief. Source: HAMR HDD capacities to scale from 4TB in 2016 to 100TB in 2025 – Storage – >>>

Not just the world’s highest capacity SSD, but the world’s highest capacity drive of any type. The PM1633 uses Samsung’s new 48 layer V-NAND, itself >>>