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

Maker Will Whang designed the MK4001MTD USB Bridge to facilitate the use of the world’s smallest (0.85-inch) mechanical hard drives, originally released by Toshiba in 2004.

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

Seagate has begun shipping its 44TB Exos HDDs based on its HAMR technology to two hyperscale customers as others qualify the all-new Mozaic 4+ hard drive platform.

Get 20TB of Seagate external storage for just $16 per terabyte — rare discount lands during the AI-driven storage crunch

This 20TB Seagate expansion drive is a great external storage solution that defies the AI price crunch.

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

The $370 price difference between the U.S. and the U.K. on 28TB hard drives meant that it’s more cost effective to pay for a round-trip ticket and a hotel stay than to just purchase 10 drives locally.

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

Western Digital’s production for 2026 is completely earmarked for its top seven customers, with a few long-term agreements already in place for the next couple of years.

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

Backblaze just released its annual drive reliability report, with the company getting a 1.36% annualized failure rate for 2025. It says that this is its best result since 2022.

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

Western Digital outlines vision for hard drive platforms in 2030 and beyond: 14 platters, new laser technology, capacities of 140TB 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

Western Digital to give large customers a tool to manage storage fleets of 200+ PB consisting of SSDs, HAMR HDDs, and UltraSMR drives.