At its recent Innovation Day 2026 event, Western Digital previewed two technologies in development to increase HDD throughput: high bandwidth drive technology (HBDT) and dual pivot technology (DPT).

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We love that modern laptops have become so slim and light, but we aren’t happy about the disappearance of ports and features. It’s been forever since I’ve seen a laptop with an optical disc drive! If ...

The companies behind hard drives and storage are leading a stock rally. The surge comes after Jensen Huang flagged data storage as a key constraint for AI at CES 2026. SanDisk led the rally, jumping ...

Hard-drive and storage stocks surged after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang described the memory storage market as "completely unserved."Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images ...

When’s the last time you saw a laptop with a spinning disc drive on a store shelf? Outside of a pawn shop, I don’t think I’ve seen one in almost 10 years. But Japanese manufacturer Fujitsu just ...

In this increasingly digital era, physical media has become a thing of the past in most circles. There is, however, sustained interest in such supposedly antiquated tech. Some examples of this include ...

If you look for a desktop or laptop PC, you’ll see that with very few exceptions, the hard disk drive (HDD), which has served us for decades, is no longer offered as an internal storage medium.

This year marks the 45 th year of the International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST). It is the oldest continuous IEEE conference on digital storage technology. Topics at ...

TL;DR: Sony's PlayStation 6 will launch as an all-digital console without a built-in disc drive, requiring consumers to purchase the drive separately. This strategy aims to boost Sony's profit margins ...

The PlayStation 5 turns five years old in November, and talk about the yet-to-be-announced PS6 has begun picking up lately. One idea that the proposed successor console could reportedly adopt from the ...

The PlayStation 6 will reportedly have a model that comes with a detachable disc drive at launch, according to several sources that spoke with Insider Gaming. The PlayStation 5 Slim model introduced a ...