#hdds — Public Fediverse posts

Class-action price-fixing lawsuit targets hard drive component makers as costs skyrocket — 13-year scheme allegedly drove up prices for major HDD brands

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/class-action-price-fixing-lawsuit-targets-hard-drive-component-makers-as-costs-skyrocket-13-year-scheme-allegedly-drove-up-prices-for-major-hdd-brands

High-capacity HDD roadmap: the race to 100TB and zettabyte-scale storage — Toshiba, Seagate and WD outline three distinct strategies

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/high-capacity-hdd-roadmap-the-race-to-100tb-and-zettabyte-scale-storage-toshiba-seagate-and-wd-outline-three-distinct-strategies

Redditor gambles $20 on a 4TB Temu external HDD — receives a microSD card reader hot-glued inside a plastic box

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/external-hdds/redditor-gambles-usd20-on-a-4tb-temu-external-hdd-receives-a-microsd-card-reader-hot-glued-inside-a-plastic-box

Seagate FireCuda X Vault (8TB) review: A USB-powered, RGB-lit hard drive aimed at gamers

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/external-ssds/seagate-firecuda-x-vault-8tb-review

Toshiba refuses to replace large hard drive that was under warranty — company offers refund at the purchase price, not the higher currfent retail price

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/toshiba-refuses-to-replace-large-hard-drives-under-warranty-the-company-offers-refunds-at-the-purchase-price-not-the-post-shortage-price

Hype for the Future 155A → Hard Drive Technologies

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/hype-for-the-future-155a-%e2%86%92-hard-drive-technologies/

Hype for the Future 155A → Hard Drive Technologies

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/hype-for-the-future-155a-%e2%86%92-hard-drive-technologies/

Hype for the Future 155A → Hard Drive Technologies

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/hype-for-the-future-155a-%e2%86%92-hard-drive-technologies/

Hype for the Future 155A → Hard Drive Technologies

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/hype-for-the-future-155a-%e2%86%92-hard-drive-technologies/

Hype for the Future 155A → Hard Drive Technologies

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/hype-for-the-future-155a-%e2%86%92-hard-drive-technologies/

WD Innovation Day 2026 press Q&A transcript: roadmap plans to reach 60TB with ePMR and 100TB via HAMR by 2029 — 'at some point, the laws of physics will require us to transition to HAMR'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/wd-innovation-day-2026-press-q-and-a-transcript-roadmap-plans-to-reach-60tb-with-epmr-and-100tb-via-hamr-by-2029-at-some-point-the-laws-of-physics-will-require-us-to-transition-to-hamr

At just $17.68 per Terabyte, this 22TB external Seagate Expansion HDD is one of the cheapest hard drives on the market — backup copious amounts of data for $389

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/external-hdds/at-just-usd17-68-per-terabyte-this-22tb-external-seagate-expansion-hdd-is-one-of-the-cheapest-hard-drives-on-the-market-backup-copious-amounts-of-data-for-usd389

Enthusiast reverse engineers world’s smallest HDD to access data with help from an old Nokia N91 and OpenClaw — open source USB bridge unlocks 0.85-inch mechanical Toshiba drive from 2004

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/external-hdds/enthusiast-reverse-engineers-worlds-smallest-hdd-to-access-data-with-help-from-an-old-nokia-n91-and-openclaw-open-source-usb-bridge-unlocks-0-85-inch-mechanical-toshiba-from-2004

Are we measuring wellness in terabytes already? I have some gold :)
One is clicking, but I don’t know which one. Will put them in a box with other unused hardware for now. Can be useful someday.

#hdd #hdds #harddrives #harddrive #hardware #wd #seagate #homelab

Seagate begins shipping 44TB hard drives with HAMR tech to data centers — Mozaic 4+ platform expands to 10 platters

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/seagate-begins-shipping-44tb-hard-drives-with-hamr-tech-to-data-centers-mozaic-4-platform-expands-to-10-platters

In mid-2024, I bought a bunch of WD/HGST 12TB refurb HDDs for $75 each. They came from GoHardDrive and had a 5-year warranty. I even used the warranty on a drive that died a couple months later. All good.

I see now that GHD is now entirely "sold out" of these drives. However, they have plenty of relabeled MaxDigitalData 12TB drives. These are just the same refurb WD/HGST drives, but with a GoHardDrive house-brand sticker on them.

All to say that my 5-year free-replacement warranty appears to have been swapped with a "30% off" coupon on those 12TB drives (which now cost $250 each). Because, now, GHD can just refund the original $75 purchase price and say they don't have replacements anymore.

#DataHoarder #SelfHosting #HDDs

Get 20TB of Seagate external storage for just $11 per terabyte — rare discount lands during the AI-driven storage crunch

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/external-hdds/get-20tb-of-seagate-external-storage-for-just-usd11-per-terabyte-rare-discount-lands-during-the-ai-driven-storage-crunch

Hard drive pricing in the UK is so high that a person flew to the US to buy them instead, saving money despite flight and hotel costs — HDD deal seeker saved more than $2,000 by taking a trip

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/hard-drive-pricing-in-the-uk-is-so-high-that-a-person-flew-to-the-us-to-buy-them-instead-saving-money-despite-flight-and-hotel-costs-hdd-deal-seeker-saved-more-than-usd2-000-by-taking-a-trip

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@leitzke/116086295913221015

Same for #HDDs, #SSDs, and #NVMEs btw.

I really think this shit needs to be:
a) Illegal internationally.
b) We need someone like the @EUCommission to come up with a plan to have our European companies as well as any company that is actually selling towards European Consumers (including smaller businesses) ramp up production.

This shit is insanely stupid right now...

Western Digital just said their '26 allocation of HDDs are already spoken for. And it's for AI. No surprise there. And WD said they've already taken huge orders for all the way out until '28. This AI BS has got to stop!

#AI #AIBubble #Bubble #AISlop #WesternDigital #HDD #HDDs #Storage #RAM #DRAM #CES

Seagate's enormous 20TB IronWolf HDDs are just $419, or $21 per-terabyte — large-capacity storage deal from Newegg is perfect for your NAS

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/seagates-enormous-20tb-ironwolf-hdds-are-just-usd419-or-usd21-per-terabyte-large-capacity-storage-deal-from-newegg-is-perfect-for-your-nas

Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/western-digital-is-already-sold-out-of-hard-drives-for-all-of-2026-chief-says-some-long-term-agreements-for-2027-and-2028-already-in-place

Cloud storage company releases its 2025 hard drive reliability report — overall Annualized Failure Rate drops to 1.36%, 21 percentage points lower than last year

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/cloud-storage-company-releases-its-2025-hard-drive-reliability-report-overall-annualized-failure-rate-drops-to-1-36-percent-21-percentage-points-lower-than-last-year

Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/western-digital-details-14-platter-3-5-inch-hamr-hdd-designs-with-140-tb-and-beyond

Western Digital reveals new software platform to manage hundreds of petabytes of storage — as-yet-unnamed tool gives users powerful management capabilities at the price of lock-in

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/western-digital-reveals-new-software-platform-to-manage-hundreds-of-petabytes-of-storage-as-yet-unnamed-tool-gives-users-powerful-management-capabilities-at-the-price-of-lock-in

Western Digital doubles the performance of hard drives with dual-actuator High-Bandwidth, with path to 8X performance increase — Power-Optimized HDDs will reduce power by 20 percent

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/western-digital-doubles-the-performance-of-hard-drives-with-dual-actuator-high-bandwidth-with-path-to-8x-performance-increase-power-optimized-hdds-will-reduce-power-by-20-percent

Western Digital unveils massive 40TB HDD with energy-assisted recording tech — plans 100TB HAMR hard drives by 2029

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/western-digital-unveils-massive-40tb-hdd-that-records-data-using-lasers-plans-100tb-hamr-hard-drives-by-2029

🤔 Imagine if your computer files gained weight! 💪 Someone's been playing too much Jenga with their #HDDs and decided that we need our laptops to double as dumbbells. 🎉 Because who needs a gym when you can just open Photoshop?
https://www.shiveesh.com/thoughts-and-ideas/what-if-heavy-files-actually-felt-heavy #computerfiles #weightlifting #techhumor #Photoshop #innovation #HackerNews #ngated

Untouched SSDs Are Not Part of a Good Data Backup Strategy https://petapixel.com/2025/11/25/untouched-ssds-are-not-part-of-a-good-data-backup-strategy/ #Technology #321backup #workflow #storage #backup #News #data #hdds #ssds

Der #KI-Boom führt zu einem historischen #Engpass bei Speichermedien. Lieferzeiten für #HDDs steigen auf bis zu zwei Jahre, während Preise für #NAND um 50 % klettern. Ein Ende ist nicht in Sicht. #Speicherkrise https://winfuture.de/news,154820.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

WD launches investigation into problems with its controversial SMR hard drives — same drives that got WD sued in 2021 now reporting failure rates due to 'fundamental' flaws - Western Digital Blue and Red HDDs from 2020 that use SMR te... - https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/wd-launches-investigation-into-problems-with-its-smr-hard-drives-the-same-drives-that-got-wd-sued-in-2021-now-reporting-failure-rates-due-to-fundamental-flaws #pccomponents #storage #hdds

Unlucky buyer purchases external Seagate HDD, gets an SD card glued inside a plastic shell - An unfortunate user on Reddit bought a 1TB Seagate Backup P... - https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/external-hdds/unlucky-storage-seeker-buys-external-seagate-hdd-gets-sd-card-glued-inside-a-plastic-shell #externalhdds #pccomponents #storage #hdds

Toshiba touts industry-first 12-disk HDD stacking technology, will pair with microwave-based recording tech — says advance will enable 40TB drives in 2027 - Toshiba claims it is the first to “verify 12-disk stacking ... - https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/toshiba-touts-industry-first-12-disk-hdd-stacking-technology-will-pair-with-microwave-based-recording-tech-says-advance-will-enable-40tb-drives-in-2027 #pccomponents #storage #hdds

CEX extending their warranty to 5 years on all purchases,
Apparently backdated for anything you've bought in the last 2 years too

I guess that makes used #hdds from CEX a much better now ?

https://uk.webuy.com/blog-detail?article=tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1918688228918285001.post-3035645349333060703 #CeX

The USGS Provides Maps & Imagery For Hurricane Response
--
https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/usgs-provides-maps-and-imagery-hurricane-response <-- link to technical article
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https://apps.nationalmap.gov/event-support-map-hub/ <-- Geospatial Information Response Team (GIRT) hazard USGS The National Map (TNM) page
--
H/T #XanFredricks
“🌊For this hurricane season, the [U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geospatial Information Response Team] GIRT has a newly designed, publicly available Event Support Map HUB site that offers access to applications, resources and information for hurricanes and other natural disasters…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #USGS #NGP #GIRT #EROS #NGTOC #HDDS #3DEP #TheNationalMap #science #maps #imagery #hurricanes #tropicalstorms #hazards #emergencyresponse #disasterresponse #firstresponders #supportmaps #realtimedata #information #response #gischat #appliedscience
@usgs #USGS

Buying #used #hdd or #harddrives are like #buying a #mysterybox only bc ppl rarely fully #erase their #drives. This is only a #memory from the #past but when I actually did #buy #hdds off of #ebay. I #found some #porn not deleted, #family #pictures not deleted, #weirdporn #deleted but I #recovered out of #curosity sake. 😂 There was one which was a bunch of #cat #pics.

Also if you #selling your HDDs do #delete the #data #clean off. There's a ton of porn you don't want your #customers seeing 😂😂

#tech

S3 scales to petabytes a second on top of slow HDDs

https://bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/how-aws-s3-scales-with-tens-of-millions-of-hard-drives

#HackerNews #S3 #Petabytes #HDDs #AWS #BigData #CloudStorage

The USGS Provides Maps & Imagery For Hurricane Response
--
https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/usgs-provides-maps-and-imagery-hurricane-response <-- link to technical article
--
https://apps.nationalmap.gov/event-support-map-hub/ <-- Geospatial Information Response Team (GIRT) hazard USGS The National Map (TNM) page
--
H/T #XanFredricks
“🌊For this hurricane season, the [U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geospatial Information Response Team] GIRT has a newly designed, publicly available Event Support Map HUB site that offers access to applications, resources and information for hurricanes and other natural disasters…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #USGS #NGP #GIRT #EROS #NGTOC #HDDS #3DEP #TheNationalMap #science #maps #imagery #hurricanes #tropicalstorms #hazards #emergencyresponse #disasterresponse #firstresponders #supportmaps #realtimedata #information #response #gischat #appliedscience
@usgs #USGS

The USGS Provides Maps & Imagery For Hurricane Response
--
https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/usgs-provides-maps-and-imagery-hurricane-response <-- link to technical article
--
https://apps.nationalmap.gov/event-support-map-hub/ <-- Geospatial Information Response Team (GIRT) hazard USGS The National Map (TNM) page
--
H/T #XanFredricks
“🌊For this hurricane season, the [U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geospatial Information Response Team] GIRT has a newly designed, publicly available Event Support Map HUB site that offers access to applications, resources and information for hurricanes and other natural disasters…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #USGS #NGP #GIRT #EROS #NGTOC #HDDS #3DEP #TheNationalMap #science #maps #imagery #hurricanes #tropicalstorms #hazards #emergencyresponse #disasterresponse #firstresponders #supportmaps #realtimedata #information #response #gischat #appliedscience
@usgs #USGS

The USGS Provides Maps & Imagery For Hurricane Response
--
https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/usgs-provides-maps-and-imagery-hurricane-response <-- link to technical article
--
https://apps.nationalmap.gov/event-support-map-hub/ <-- Geospatial Information Response Team (GIRT) hazard USGS The National Map (TNM) page
--
H/T #XanFredricks
“🌊For this hurricane season, the [U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geospatial Information Response Team] GIRT has a newly designed, publicly available Event Support Map HUB site that offers access to applications, resources and information for hurricanes and other natural disasters…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #USGS #NGP #GIRT #EROS #NGTOC #HDDS #3DEP #TheNationalMap #science #maps #imagery #hurricanes #tropicalstorms #hazards #emergencyresponse #disasterresponse #firstresponders #supportmaps #realtimedata #information #response #gischat #appliedscience
@usgs #USGS

The USGS Provides Maps & Imagery For Hurricane Response
--
https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/usgs-provides-maps-and-imagery-hurricane-response <-- link to technical article
--
https://apps.nationalmap.gov/event-support-map-hub/ <-- Geospatial Information Response Team (GIRT) hazard USGS The National Map (TNM) page
--
H/T #XanFredricks
“🌊For this hurricane season, the [U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geospatial Information Response Team] GIRT has a newly designed, publicly available Event Support Map HUB site that offers access to applications, resources and information for hurricanes and other natural disasters…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #USGS #NGP #GIRT #EROS #NGTOC #HDDS #3DEP #TheNationalMap #science #maps #imagery #hurricanes #tropicalstorms #hazards #emergencyresponse #disasterresponse #firstresponders #supportmaps #realtimedata #information #response #gischat #appliedscience
@[email protected] #USGS

Are we measuring wellness in terabytes already? I have some gold :)
One is clicking, but I don’t know which one. Will put them in a box with other unused hardware for now. Can be useful someday.

#hdd #hdds #harddrives #harddrive #hardware #wd #seagate #homelab

Are we measuring wellness in terabytes already? I have some gold :)
One is clicking, but I don’t know which one. Will put them in a box with other unused hardware for now. Can be useful someday.

#hdd #hdds #harddrives #harddrive #hardware #wd #seagate #homelab

Are we measuring wellness in terabytes already? I have some gold :)
One is clicking, but I don’t know which one. Will put them in a box with other unused hardware for now. Can be useful someday.

#hdd #hdds #harddrives #harddrive #hardware #wd #seagate #homelab

Are we measuring wellness in terabytes already? I have some gold :)
One is clicking, but I don’t know which one. Will put them in a box with other unused hardware for now. Can be useful someday.

#hdd #hdds #harddrives #harddrive #hardware #wd #seagate #homelab

Ah, yes, the classic Microsoft update: where your #SSDs and #HDDs become glorified paperweights 🖨️📄 and your data takes a spontaneous vacation to the abyss. But don't worry, just enable JavaScript and cookies, because that's obviously the key to fixing hardware meltdowns! 🍪🔧
https://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-latest-windows-11-24h2-update-breaks-ssdshdds-may-corrupt-your-data/ #MicrosoftUpdate #DataLoss #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Seagate's 26TB Expansion Desktop HDD has had its price slashed by $100 at Best Buy — now just $9.61 per TB - Seagate's 26TB Expansion Desktop HDD has had its price slas... - https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/external-hdds/seagates-26tb-expansion-desktop-hdd-has-had-its-price-slashed-by-usd100-at-best-buy-now-just-usd9-61-per-tb #externalhdds #pccomponents #storage #hdds

Lucky data hoarder pays $360 for six 8TB WD external hard drives, lands five more for free — scores 11 shuckable HDDs for $4 per TB - A Redditor bought six WD Easystore 8TB external hard drives... - https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/external-hdds/lucky-data-hoarder-pays-usd360-for-six-8tb-wd-external-hard-drives-lands-five-more-for-free-scores-11-shuckable-hdds-for-usd4-per-tb #externalhdds #pccomponents #storage #hdds

Shuckable Seagate 20TB external hard drive is on sale for $219 — back up your data at 1 cent per GB - The Seagate 20TB Expansion Desktop HDD is available right n... - https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/external-hdds/shuckable-seagate-20tb-external-hard-drive-is-on-sale-for-usd219-back-up-your-data-at-1-cent-per-gb #externalhdds #pccomponents #storage #hdds

Get this 6TB External Hard Drive for an all-time low price of just $139 — Western Digital offers a massive $45 discount for Amazon Prime Day - Western Digital makes some of the best storage devices out ... - https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/external-hdds/get-this-6tb-external-hard-drive-for-an-all-time-low-price-of-just-usd139-western-digital-offers-a-massive-usd45-discount-for-amazon-prime-day #externalhdds #pccomponents #storage #hdds