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- Cerabyte shows off prototype ceramic archival system https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/12/20/prototype-cerabyte-ceramic-archival-system/ 3 comments
- Western Digital boss most disliked tech CEO in survey https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/10/09/western-digital-most-disliked-ceo/ 8 comments
- 50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/08/23/50tb-ibm-tape/ 173 comments
- Phison is the largest SSD supplier you’ve never heard of https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/06/12/phison-largest-ssd-supplier-no-one-knows-about/ 7 comments
- IBM swallows Red Hat storage products https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/10/04/ibm-red-hat-storage/ 77 comments
- Petabyte tape cartridges are coming https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/02/04/petabyte-tape-cartridges-are-coming/ 151 comments
- Actifio squashes employee shareholders ‘like cockroaches’ https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/10/12/actifio-reverse-stock-split-employees-hit/ 10 comments
- Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/14/wd-red-nas-drives-shingled-magnetic-recording/ 305 comments
- Seagate unveils 30 TB+ Exos HAMR disk drives – Blocks and Files https://blocksandfiles.com/2024/01/17/seagate-hamr-drives/ 16 comments hardware
- Cerabyte shows off prototype ceramic archival system – Blocks and Files https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/12/20/prototype-cerabyte-ceramic-archival-system/ 4 comments hardware
- 50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity – Blocks and Files https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/08/23/50tb-ibm-tape/ 4 comments hardware
- IBM swallows Red Hat storage products https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/10/04/ibm-red-hat-storage/ 2 comments technews
- Blocks and Files: "Neo Semiconductor doubles X-NAND die speed" https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/08/11/neo-x-nand-doubles-die-speed/ 2 comments hardware
- Intel has Optane chip hoard with no plans to develop tech https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/05/02/intel-optane-chip-inventory/ 56 comments hardware
- Intel Optane losses laid bare in SEC report https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/11/01/intel-optane-losses-laid-bare-in-sec-report/ 21 comments hardware
- XPoint capacity to surpass DRAM by 2030 https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/09/07/xpoint-capacity-to-surpass-dram-by-2030 15 comments hardware
- Bitten by stealthy "drive managed" SMR HDDs, was it really listed in the Exos datasheets? https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/15/seagate-2-4-and-8tb-barracuda-and-desktop-hdd-smr/ 5 comments sysadmin
- Thoughts on a quad-actuator disk drive https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/07/26/thoughts-on-a-quad-actuator-disk-drive/ 4 comments filesystems
- GigaOM has published a Radar report comparison report to understand the maturity level of different cloud native & enterprise Kubernetes data storage providers in term of the adoption & usability. https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/07/08/29444/ https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/07/08/29444/ 3 comments kubernetes
- NAND inventor’s company invents Dynamic Flash Memory – a theoretical DRAM replacement https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/05/21/nand-inventors-company-invents-dynamic-flash-memory-a-theoretical-dram-replacement/ 46 comments hardware
- ScaleFlux: Our computational storage drives are bigger, faster and cheaper than ordinary SSDs https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/02/22/scaleflux-ceo-hao-zhong-interview/ 16 comments hardware
- Big disk drives are IO sluggards at scale - VAST Data https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/02/03/vast-data-says-ever-larger-disks-cant-keep-up-with-io-demands/ 4 comments filesystems
- 3D XPoint patent suit against Micron and Intel is allowed to proceed https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/10/05/3d-xpoint-patent-suit-intel-micron/ 4 comments intel
- Seagate ($STX) https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/09/23/seagate-assumes-ssds-wont-kill-disk-drives/ 3 comments stocks
- Intel launches 2nd Gen Optane DIMMs https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/06/18/intel-gen-2-optane-dimms/ 96 comments hardware
- Will NVMe become the universal block storage access protocol, even for HDDs? https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/05/27/nvme-universal-block-storage-access-protocol/ 61 comments hardware
- Intel lets us have a sneaky peek at 144-layer flash and gen 2 Optane plans https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/05/07/intel-preps-144-layer-flash-and-gen-2-optane-updates/ 52 comments hardware
- Intel lets us have a sneaky peek at 144-layer flash and gen 2 Optane plans https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/05/07/intel-preps-144-layer-flash-and-gen-2-optane-updates/ 26 comments intel
- Western Digital implies WD Red NAS SMR drive users are responsible for overuse problems https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/23/western-digital-blog-wd-red-nas-smr-drives-overuse/ 160 comments hardware
- Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/14/wd-red-nas-drives-shingled-magnetic-recording/ 2 comments hardware
- Coronavirus outbreak: Which NAND and disk suppliers are at risk? – Blocks and Files https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/01/29/coronavirus-outbreak-could-choke-nand-and-disk-supplies/ 8 comments hardware
- [Blocks and Files] Ignore drive write messaging... SSDs are more reliable than HDDs, Period. https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/10/04/ssds-more-reliable-than-hdds/ 19 comments hardware
- Intel Gen 2 Optane DC SSDs are at least 50 per cent faster and keep latency low https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/09/26/intel-alder-stream-optane-ssd-performance/ 25 comments hardware
- 800-layer 3D NAND? It can be yours in 2030, SK Hynix says https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/08/07/800-layer-3d-nand-roadmap/ 16 comments hardware
- What's the XPoint? SK hynix preps storage-class memory competitor https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/07/01/sk-hynix-storage-class-memory/ 10 comments hardware
- Intel gets ready to go live with servers with 12TB Optane – Blocks and Files https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/03/25/intel-has-servers-with-12tb-of-optane-memory-coming/ 20 comments hardware
- Intel builds 4-socket servers with 12TB Optane DIMMs to aid virtual machine expansion https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/03/15/4-socket-optane-dimmery/ 17 comments hardware
- Toshiba embraces shingling for next-gen MAMR HDDs https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/03/11/toshiba-mamr-statements-have-shingling-absence/ 3 comments hardware
- Toshiba builds bridge to super fast, super dense SSDs https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/02/22/toshiba-opens-door-to-higher-capacity-ssds/ 5 comments hardware
- IBM thinks analog chips to accelerate memory learning https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/02/11/ibms-ai-chips-change-phase/ 9 comments hardware