Western Digital (WD) is about to get some stiff competition from its main rival Seagate. The two companies control the majority of the spinning media market these days, and have been one-upping each other lately when it comes to storage capacity. WD recently took the capacity crown with its new …
Read More »Seagate plans 16TB drives for 2018, 20TB by 2020
Seagate may have made waves last year with its 60TB SSDs, but the company is still first and foremost a magnetic storage provider. During its conference call yesterday, the hard drive manufacturer laid out its near-term roadmap, with aggressive plans to ramp drive capacities over the next few years. Right …
Read More »How artificial intelligence drives PPC automation
From the 1970s through today, there have been three waves of technology innovation in the Silicon Valley that have spawned many industries, including ours (online marketing). First, there were semiconductors, then personal computers, and most recently, the internet. Now we’re on the cusp of the next wave of innovation, driven by …
Read More »Google opens up its new product for business file sharing “Team Drives” to early adopters
Google is opening up applications to businesses interested in testing its new file-sharing product called Team Drives. Announced earlier this fall, the focus of Team Drives is to offer companies an easier way to share files across their organization, along with more granular access controls over the content those shared folders …
Read More »Who makes the most reliable hard drives?
For the last few years, Backblaze has released quarterly reports on its hard drive reliability and replacement rates. Backblaze is a provider of cloud backup services and uses its own custom storage solutions (dubbed Drive Pods) to hold hundreds of gigabytes of data in each pod. This month, the company …
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