Toshiba launches 2TB P300 SMR hard drives
The Japanese conglomerate is offering new shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology in its hard drives.
Considered technologically superior, solid-state drives have become increasingly popular. But that does not mean hard drives are obsolete, as demonstrated by Toshiba’s latest SMR technolo... Read more
Dropbox: SMR adoption made running data centers cheaper
Dropbox states that the adoption of Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology has reduced the cost and energy consumption of its data centers, and added hundreds of petabytes of new data storage capacity. SMR technology was deployed last year.
SMR is a magnetic storage technology used in HDDs to ... Read more