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Hoya Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11955151) developed by Osakabe, Kinobu, Tokorozawa, Japan, for “substrate for magnetic disk and magnetic disk.“ The abstract of the...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/05/15/hoya-assigned-patent-8/

To read this article from digitaltrends, click on: Best external hard drive deals: Portable SSDs, game drives and more Seagate FireCuda Gaming 2TB – $60, was $100 LaCie Rugged Mini 2TB portable...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/05/09/best-external-hdd-deals/

STMicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, Italy, and STMicroelectronics KK, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11942113) developed by Ferrari, Marco, Voghera, Italy, Betta, Davide, Barzan...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/05/07/stmicroelectronics-assigned-patent-23/

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics has published an article written by Chaiwat Buajong; College of Advanced Manufacturing Innovation, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Tha...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/24/rd-deep-neural-network-detection-with-an-iti-subtraction-for-non-uniform-track-width-2d-magnetic-recording/

Journal of Applied Physics has published an article written by H.‐M. Ho; G. Thomas; Department of Materials Science & Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/22/rd-microstructure-of-oblique-incidence-coni-thin-films/

AIP Publishing has published, in 4th international conference on separation technology: separation technology, rising towards greener future proceedings, an article written by Cheong Choon Min, F...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/26/rd-recording-performance-of-bit-patterned-media-in-account-of-demagnetization-field/

Research groups from NIMS ((National Institute for Materials Science), Seagate Technology LLC, and Tohoku University have made a breakthrough in the field of HDD by demonstrating the feasibility ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/10/from-national-institute-for-materials-science-proof-of-principle-demonstration-of-3d-magnetic-recording/

From Seagate Technology LLC It sets a clear path for Mozaic 3+ mass-capacity storage implementing HAMR technology. It has invested decades of scientific expertise, resources, and dedication into ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/09/seagate-hamr-rd-delivers-leading-reliability/

AIP Advances has published, in Special Collection: 68th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials proceedings, an article written by Chaiwat Buajong, and Chanon Warisarn, College of A...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/08/rd-recording-media-configurations-for-double-layered-bit-patterned-magnetic-recording/

UACJ Corp.,Tokyo, Japan, and Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan , has been assigned a patent (11935559) developed by Kitamura, Naoki, Kitawaki, Kotaro, Hatakeyama, Hideyuki, Yamada, Ryohei...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/09/uacj-and-furukawa-electric-assigned-patent-6/

To read this article from IEEE Spectrum, click on: Stuart Parkin Revolutionized Disk Drive Storage The director of the Max Planck Institute developed spintronic technologies. The post Stuart Pa...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/03/stuart-parkin-revolutionized-hdd-storage/

Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B has published an article written by Daniel Staaks, Yautzong Hsu, Kim Y. Lee, Philip L. Steiner, Zhaoning Yu, Jason J. Wu, ShuaiGang Xiao, XiaoMin Yang, Se...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/01/rd-nanoimprint-lithography-guiding-templates-for-advanced-magnetic-media-fabrication/

Applied Physics Letter has published an article written by Tomoya Nakatani, Prabhanjan D. Kulkarni, Hirofumi Suto, Keisuke Masuda, Hitoshi Iwasaki, and Yuya Sakuraba, Research Center for Magnetic...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/02/rd-perspective-on-nanoscale-magnetic-sensors-using-giant-anomalous-hall-effect-in-topological-magnetic-materials-for-read-head-application-in-magnetic-recording/

Magnetic disk apparatus and method Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, Japan, and Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11899968) developed by M...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/01/kabushiki-kaisha-toshiba-and-toshiba-electronic-devices-storage-assigned-fiveteen-patents/

Apricorn announced a 24TB version of its Aegis Padlock DT and Padlock DT FIPS desktop drives. It is the 1st to bring a 24TB encrypted drive to market, delivering performance and mass capacity to ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/03/29/apricorn-aegis-padlock-dt-24tb-hardware-encrypted-usb-3-5-inch-desktop-usb-3-2-hdd/

To read this article from Solved Magazine, click on: Tales from the frontlines: How to bounce back from a batch disk drive failure with zero data loss The hard (spinning) disk is a formidable tar...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/03/28/tales-from-frontlines-how-to-bounce-back-from-batch-hdd-failure-with-zero-data-loss/

To read this article from Electronic Engineering Journal, click on: Seagate’s 30Tbyte Exos Hard Drive Writes Large Thirty Terabytes. These two words don’t ordinarily go together to describe t...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/03/26/seagate-30tb-exos-hdd-writes-large/

Dual spindle motor hard disk drive Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11881232) developed by Han, Nan-Hsun, Santa Ana, CA, Lee, Brian K., Yorba Linda, C...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/03/26/western-digital-technologies-assigned-eighteen-patents-2/

NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11900973) developed by Nakayama, Hiroshi, Hanya, Masao, and Nishida, Tatsuhiko, Yokohama, Japan, for a “disk drive suspension ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/03/29/nhk-spring-assigned-patent-6/

By Irina Chan, senior specialist product management, storage products division, Toshiba Electronics Europe.       The amount of data in video surveillance is growing, consequently, there is a ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/03/21/reliable-storage-for-surveillance-data/

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics has published an article written by W Pantasri, Magnetic Information Storage Technology Research Unit, Department of Physics, Mahasarakham University, Mahasa...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/03/22/rd-granular-micromagnetic-hamr-model-investigation-of-damping-dependence-and-parametric-optimization-for-high-performance/

To read this article from ZDNET, click on: The best external hard drives you can buy: Expert tested I tested the top external HDDs on the market to help you find the best way to back up your data...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/03/13/best-external-hdds-you-can-buy/

HAMR head near-field transducer with plasmonic disk Seagate Technology LLC, Fremont, CA, has been assigned a patent (11790944) developed by Cheng, Yuhang, Edina, MN, Lee, Tae-Woo, Seigler, Michae...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/03/11/seagate-technology-assigned-fourteen-patents/

To read this article from NIKKEIAsia, click on: Sony to mass-produce laser diodes that can help double HDD capacity Chip unit partners with Seagate Technology of USA for 30TB disk. The post Son...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/02/22/sony-to-mass-produce-laser-diodes/

Disk drive suspension including flexure with electrode connection portion that has regions of different thicknesses NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11869549) de...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/02/19/nhk-spring-assigned-patent-5/

Hoya Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11869538) developed by Miura, Masafumi, Chaing Mai Province, Thailand, Hashimoto, Kazuaki, Akiruno, Japan, and Higuchi, Naoyuki, Kokubu...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/02/20/hoya-assigned-patent-7/

Felicity Taiwan Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (11861173) developed by Yu, Wen-Lang, and Yu, Chia-Chien, Taipei, Taiwan, for a “storage device having a drive arm with m...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/02/16/felicity-taiwan-assigned-patent/

Seagate Technology Holdings plc launched the IronWolf Pro 24TB HDD addressing the evolving data demands of SMB and enterprise NAS environments. With capacities ranging from 2 to 24TB, the IronWol...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/01/29/seagate-ironwolf-pro-24tb-3-5-inch-hdd-for-smb-and-enterprise-nas/

To read this article from ZDNET, click on: The best external HDDs for extra storage Keep your files safe and grow your storage with the best external HDDs from brands like Seagate, Sandisk, WD, a...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/01/25/best-external-hdds-for-extra-storage/

To read this article from Forbes, click on: A New Phase Of Magnetic Recording Although NAND flash memory-based SSDs are growing in importance for storage data currently being processed (primary s...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/01/22/new-phase-of-magnetic-recording/

Seagate Technology Holdings plc launched the Mozaic 3+ HDD platform – which incorporates its implementation of HAMR technology. The launch heralds areal densities of 3TB+ per platter – and a ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/01/18/seagate-mozaic-3-ww-highest-capacity-hdd-at-30tb-and-shipping-in-1q24/

To read this article from English Jagran, click on: Best 2TB Hard Disk: Unleashing Storage Power! Best 2TB Hard Disk: Unlock massive storage with the 2TB hard disks. Experience blazing-fast data ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/01/17/best-2tb-hdds/

Magnetic disk device Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, Japan, and Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11842047) developed by Koyama, Kenji, ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/01/15/kabushiki-kaisha-toshiba-and-toshiba-electronic-devices-storage-assigned-nine-patents/

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics has published an article written by Daiki Isurugi, Takashi Saito, Shun Kaneko, Department of Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku Uni...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/01/08/rd-evaluation-of-blocking-temperature-and-its-distribution-for-l10-type-fept-granular-films-2/

Applied Physics Letters has published an article written by Danny Petty Gweha Nyoma, Maxime Vergès, Michel Hehn, Daniel Lacour, Julius Hohlfeld, Université de Lorraine, CNRS, IJL, F-54000 Nancy...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/01/09/rd-size-effect-on-single-pulse-all-optical-helicity-independent-switching-in-gdfeco-disk-arrays/

ACM Transactions on Storage Volume 19 Issue 3 has published an article written by Diansen Sun, Ruixiong Tan, and Yunpeng Chai, Renmin University of China. Abstract: “To satisfy the enormous sto...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/01/01/rd-universal-smr-aware-cache-framework-with-deep-optimization-for-dm-smr-and-hm-smr-disks/

ACM Digital Library has published, in HotStorage ’23: Proceedings of the 15th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, an article written by Jennifer Sheldon, Weidong Zhu, Comput...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/12/28/rd-deep-note-can-acoustic-interference-damage-availability-of-hard-disk-storage-in-underwater-data-centers/

STMicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, Italy, has been assigned a patent (11810604) developed by Giusti, Domenico, Caponago, Italy, and Ferrera, Marco, Concorezzo, Italy, for “read/write de...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/12/26/stmicroelectronics-assigned-patent-19/

Seagate Technology Holdings plc launched the SkyHawk AI 24TB HDD for the video and imaging applications (VIA) market. Following the recent launch of the company’s 24TB capacity Exos X24 CMR-bas...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/12/18/seagate-skyhawk-ai-24tb-3-5-inch-hdd-for-enterprise-nvrs-enabled-with-ai/

To read this article from TECH SMART, click on: A magnet can erase the memory of a hard drive, true or false? Is it true that if you bring a magnet near a hard drive, it can erase its memory? So...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/12/12/magnet-can-erase-memory-of-hdd-true-or-false/

Inventec (Pudong) Technology Corporation, Shanghai, China, and Inventec Corp., Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (11818857) developed by Ying, Yang, Chen, Xuefeng, Shi, Yanhua, and Wang,...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/12/11/inventec-technology-and-inventec-corp-assigned-patent/

NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11798585) developed by Karasawa, Takumi, Iwamoto, Naoki, Kawao, Sei, and Imai, Tomoharu, Yokohama, Japan, for “disk drive susp...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/12/07/nhk-spring-assigned-patent-4/

To read this article from TechRadar, click on: Hard drive prices could go up significantly after the rumored ‘collapse’ of key player – paving the way for growing SSD domination in the stor...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/11/30/hdd-prices-could-go-up-significantly-after-rumored-collapse-of-key-player/

Shanghai Moruan Telecom Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China, has been assigned a patent (11797064) developed by Guo, Yuhua, and Zhou, Haichen, Shanghai, China, for “hard disk fixing device an...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/11/27/shanghai-moruan-telecom-technology-assigned-patent/

As new applications, use cases and connected devices multiply, Western Digital Corp.’s enterprise-class HDDs remain critical for helping data center customers design more cost-efficient, scalab...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/11/22/volume-shipments-of-wd-24tb-cmr-3-5-inch-hdds-and-industry-adoption-of-smr-strengthen-as-28tb-smr-3-5-inch-hdd-ramps/

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics has published an article written by Kamal Hosen, and R. H. Victora, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapo...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/11/16/rd-impact-of-curie-temperature-distribution-and-anisotropy-field-distribution-on-user-density-of-hamr-under-different-thermal-gradients/

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics has published an article written by Chengchao Xu, B.S.D.Ch.S. Varaprasad, Data Storage Systems Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, and Electric...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/11/17/rd-fabrication-of-16nm-thick-granular-l10-fept-hbn-thin-film-media/

This article was written by Rainer W. Kaese, senior manager business development storage products, Toshiba Electronics Europe.     The effects of high temperatures on hard drives Modern enterpr...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/11/10/effects-of-high-temperatures-on-hdds/

Inside a recent press release on 1FQ24 financial results from Seagate Technology Holdings plc published on October 26, 2023, the company reveals its HDD roadmap (see below). For the first time, a...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/11/03/ww-historical-record-of-40tb-for-hdd/

Scientific Reports has published an article written by Yifei Chen, Department of Physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA, and R. H. Victora, Department of Physics, Universit...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/11/06/rd-effectiveness-of-pulsed-laser-in-hamr/

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics has published an article written by Kim Kong Tham, Ryosuke Kushibiki, Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K. K, Tsukuba, Japan, and Shin Saito, Department of Electronic Engineer...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/11/07/rd-effect-of-c-replacement-on-magnetic-properties-and-nanostructure-of-fept-nitride-granular-film-for-hamr-media/

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics has published an article written by Daiki Isurugi, Takashi Saito, Department of Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, 6–6–0...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/11/08/rd-blocking-phenomenon-of-hard-soft-bilayer-l10-fept-grains-in-granular-film/

Microscopy and Microanalysis has published an article written by Matthew R Hauwiller, Charlie Mann, Peter Mach, Karen Terry, and Mike Kautzky, Seagate Technology, Bloomington, MN, USA. Abstract: ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/11/09/rd-sem-grain-characterization-of-metals-for-nanoelectronics/

Microscopy and Microanalysis has published an article written by Carol A Johnson, Indra Subedi, Stephen Exarhos, Joseph Roth, Michael Kautzky, and Karen Terry, Seagate Technology, Bloomington, MN...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/11/10/rd-complementary-use-of-sensitive-nanoscale-and-bulk-techniques-to-probe-surface-and-subsurface-defects-in-high-volume-manufacturing/

ACS Applied Electronic Materials has published an article written by Christopher P. Murray, Daniyar Mamyraimov, School of Physics, CRANN and AMBER, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dubli...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/10/30/rd-monolayer-capping-provides-close-to-optimal-resistance-to-laser-dewetting-of-au-films/

Seagate Technology Holdings plc introduced the Exos X24 3.5-inch HDD. With 10 disks delivering 2.4TB each, the Exos X24 is the company’s highest density HDDe, offering industry TCO for hypersca...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/10/23/seagate-exos-x24-cmr-7200rpm-helium-sata-and-sas-3-5-inch-24tb-hdd-with-10-platters/

To read this article from India Education, click on: Tohoku University Commemorates Third IEEE Milestone Honor With Pride And Achievement Perpendicular magnetic recording, developed by Tohoku Uni...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/10/23/tohoku-university-commemorates-third-ieee-milestone/

Magnetic disk device, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba and Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been ass...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/10/25/kabushiki-kaisha-toshiba-and-toshiba-electronic-devices-storage-corporation-fourteen-assigned-patents/

STMicroelectronics, Inc., Coppell, TX, and STMicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, Italy, has been assigned a patent (11756582) developed by Pulici, Paolo, Lainate, Italy, Hogg, Dennis, Laguna...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/10/20/stmicroelectronics-assigned-patent-18/

To read this article from Forbes, click on: IEEE Engineering Milestone For Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Today all of the HDDs used to store most of the world’s data are using PMR. The pos...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/10/11/all-hdds-to-store-most-of-worlds-data-using-pmr/

To read this article citing Finis Conner, click on: Could a Hard Drive Supply Chain Crisis Push AI and Digital Ads to the Breaking Point? The loudest voices in the room are talking about AI and t...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/10/06/could-a-hard-drive-supply-chain-crisis-push-ai-and-digital-ads-to-breaking-point/

Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH announces its MG10F Series 22TB (1) HDD, a conventional magnetic recording (CMR) HDD that leverages the firm’s 10-disk helium-sealed design. As a key building b...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/10/04/toshiba-mg10f-series-3-5-inch-cmr-22tb-hdd-with-10-disk-helium-sealed-design/

To read this article from techradar, click on: Here’s the (boring) solution that could make 100TB hard drives easier to build Nanometer-thick HFIL-OH lubricant is being made in partnership with...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/09/20/heres-boring-solution-that-could-make-100tb-hdds-easier-to-build/

To read this article from tom’sHARDWARE, click on: Best Hard Drives 2023: Top HDDs for Desktop PCs, NAS, and More Based on our extensive tests, these are the best HDDs for every need and budget...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/09/20/best-hdds-2023-for-desktop-pcs-nas-and-more/

UACJ Corporation, and Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11721361) developed by Kitawaki, Kotaro, Murata, Takuya, Yonemitsu, Makoto, Matsui, Yu, Fujii, Yasuo, ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/09/05/uacj-and-furukawa-electric-assigned-patent-5/

To read this article from Nature, click on: Optical forces in heat-assisted magnetic recording head-disk interface A main challenge in HAMR technology is the build-up of contaminants called smear...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/08/30/optical-forces-in-hamr-head-disk-interface/

Scientific Reports has published an article written by Roshan Mathew Tom, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA, Robert Smith, Oscar Ruiz, Qing Dai, The CTO ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/08/18/rd-optical-forces-in-hamr-head-disk-interface/

Magnetic-disk glass substrate, substrate intermediate, and method for manufacturing Hoya corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11710505) developed by Azuma; Shuhei, Hung Yen Prov...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/08/14/hoya-assigned-two-patents-2/

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics has published an article written by Daiki Isurugi, Takashi Saito, Shun Kaneko, Department of Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku Uni...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/08/07/rd-evaluation-of-blocking-temperature-and-its-distribution-for-l10-type-fept-granular-films/

Substrate for magnetic disk, disk, and hard disk drive Hoya Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11694718) developed by Osakabe, Kinobu, Tokorozawa, Japan, for “substrate for ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/08/07/hoya-assigned-two-patents/

Magnecomp Corporation, Murrieta, CA, has been assigned a patent (11694716) developed by Glaess, David, Bangkok, Thailand, Ee, Kuen Chee, Chino, CA, Zhang, Long, Winchester, CA, and Dunn, Chris, A...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/08/08/magnecomp-assigned-patent-12/

Springer  has published, in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems book series, an article written by Tahir M. Khan, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, James H. Jones Jr., George Mason U...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/08/04/rd-factors-affecting-persistence-of-deleted-files-on-digital-storage-devices/

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics has published an article written by Kamal Hosen, and R. H. Victora, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapo...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/07/31/rd-design-considerations-including-rotating-head-technique-for-shingled-hamr/

Tribology Letters has published an article written by Qilong Cheng, Roshan Mathew Tom, and David B. Bogy, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA. Abstract: “Heat-assiste...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/08/01/rd-two-strategies-to-mitigate-thermally-induced-material-buildup-in-hamr/

Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd., China, has been assigned a patent (11681444) developed by Wang, Chao, Liu, Jian, and Li, Li, Beijing, China, for “shingled magnetic disk mana...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/07/28/baidu-netcom-science-technology-assigned-patent/

Xfusion Digital Technologies, Co., Ltd., Zhengzhou, China, has been assigned a patent (11682428) developed by Ren, Kunsheng, Shenzhen, China, and Zhou, Jianhua, Chengdu, China, for “hard disk f...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/07/24/xfusion-digital-technologies-assigned-patent/

To read this article from tom’sHARDWARE, click on: Best Hard Drives 2023: Top HDDs for Desktop PCs, NAS, and More Based on our extensive tests, these are the best hard drives for every need and...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/07/21/best-hdds-2023/

To read this article from Nature Briefing, click on Effectiveness of a pulsed laser in heat-assisted magnetic recording This paper aims to optimize and prove the effectiveness of pulsed laser rec...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/07/19/effectiveness-of-pulsed-laser-in-hamr/

As the summer season arrives, smart working becomes an even more established practice, and many employees choose to leave the cities to work from seaside or mountain locations. Away from the offi...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/07/07/toshiba-cavio-flex-2-5-inch-up-to-4tb-portable-usb-3-2-gen-1-hdd/

To read this blog from Marisa Miller, Western Digital, click on: OptiNAND, Explained It is Western Digital’s proprietary technology, integrating iNAND embedded flash devices in HDDs: a flash-en...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/07/06/optinand-explained/

To read this article from Macworld, click on: The best external hard drives for your Mac No matter your budget or use, we’ve got the right drive for your Mac. 1. Seagate Ultra Touch 2. LaCie Mo...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/07/06/best-external-hdds-for-mac-3/

By Rainer W. Kaese, senior manager business development, storage products, Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH     Maximizing storage and performance while minimizing power consumption and environm...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/07/03/from-toshiba-sustainable-future-for-storage/

AIP Advances has published an article written by Thien An Nguyen and Jaejin Lee, Department of Information Communication Convergence Technology, Soongsil University, Seoul 06978, South Korea. Abs...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/06/28/rd-optimization-of-2d-generalized-partial-response-target-using-multi-layer-perceptron-for-bit-patterned-media-recording-systems/

AIP Advances has published an article written by Takashi Komine, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, 4-12-1, Nakanarusawa, Hitachi, Ibaraki 316-8511, Japan. Abstract: ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/06/29/rd-combinatorial-dependence-of-magnetic-printing-characteristics-in-double-magnet-master-media-for-energy-assisted-magnetic-recording/

By Jake Dawe, web content strategist, Western Digital       Every hard drive that Western Digital Corp. creates requires profound complexity. A single drive combines nearly 300 components from...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/06/16/wd-preparing-for-30tb-and-beyond-hdd/

To read this article from Geeky Gadgets, click on: New Apple Mac Pro suffering hard drive issues The new Apple Mac Pro was unveiled at WWDC 2023 last week, now it has been revealed that there is ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/06/16/new-apple-mac-pro-suffering-hard-drive-issues/

Seagate Technology Holdings plc announced the Starfield Special Edition Game Drive and Game Hub for Xbox, taking popular line of storage for gamers to the next level. These external HDDs deliver ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/06/22/seagate-starfield-special-edition-game-drive-and-game-hub-for-xbox/

AIP Advances has published an article written by B. S. D. Ch. S. Varaprasad, Chengchao Xu, Data Storage Systems Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA, and Electr...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/06/20/rd-fept-bn-granular-hamr-media-with-high-grain-aspect-ratio-and-high-l10-ordering-on-corning-lotus-nxt-glass/

AIP Advances has published an article written by N. Rueangnetr, Advanced Signal Processing for Data Storage (ADaS) Research Unit, College of Advanced Manufacturing Innovation (AMI), King Mongkut�...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/06/21/rd-double-layer-magnetic-recording-with-multilayer-perceptron-decoder-for-single-reader-two-track-reading-in-bpmr-systems/

ZTE Corporation, Shenzhen, China, has been assigned a patent (11656943) developed by Yang, Hongzhang, Tu, Yaofeng, Yang, Yahui, Li, Zhongliang, and Guo, Bin, Shenzhen, China, for “method and ap...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/06/13/zte-assigned-patent-2/

To read this article from tom’sHARDWARE, click on: Seagate Reveals HAMR HDD Roadmap: 32TB First, 40TB Follows Seagate expects its 24TB HDD to be its last PMR product. The post Seagate HAMR HD...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/06/09/seagate-hamr-hdd-roadmap/

Synology, Inc. announced its Plus Series SATA 3.5-inch HDDs, designed to meet the reliability, endurance, and performance requirements of 24/7 storage in the company’s entry-level and mainstrea...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/06/08/from-synology-plus-series-3-5-inch-up-to-12tb-sata-hdds-for-home-and-office-systems/

To read this article from BBC News, click on: Why millions of usable hard drives are being destroyed Millions of storage devices are being shredded each year, even though they could be reused. �...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/06/08/why-millions-of-usable-hdds-being-destroyed/

Microsystem Technologies has published an article written by Hiroshi Tani, Kansai, Renguo Lu, Shinji Koganezawa, and Norio Tagawa, Kansai University, Suita-shi, Osaka, Japan. Abstract: “The for...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/06/08/rd-control-of-head-smear-generation-by-diamond-like-carbon-films-using-external-electric-field/

Hoya Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11640833) developed by Eda, Shinjin Hung Yen Province, Vietnam, for “substrate for magnetic disk and magnetic disk.“ The abstract o...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/06/07/hoya-assigned-patent-6/

To read this article from tom’s guide, click on: The best external hard drives in 2023 Here are the best external hard drives, based on our extensive testing: 1. WD My Book (WDBBGB, USB 3.0, 4T...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/06/09/best-external-hdds-in-2023-2/

To read this article from Forbes, click on: A Short Personal History of Perpendicular Magnetic Recording In 1977 Professor Iwasaki wrote his first paper on perpendicular magnetic recording (An An...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/05/24/short-personal-history-of-perpendicular-magnetic-recording/

Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH has further underlined the application versatility of its HDDs products. MG10 Series HDD Having already shown the complete compatibility of certain models in its h...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/05/18/microchip-adaptec-interoperability-assurance-qualification-for-toshiba-mg10-series-sas-based-hdds/

To read this article from techradar.pro, click on: Controversial hard drive vendor breaks new record with cheapest HDD yet 14TB for under $120 with full five year warranty? What’s the trick? ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/05/03/cheapest-hdd-yet-from-maxdigitaldata/

We weren’t terribly kind to EMC’s chairman and CEO Joe Tucci in our January issue, confening upon him SN’s “Lemon” award after his company’s spectacular decline in 2001.     Which e...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/05/18/history-2002-way-to-go-joe/