In this podcast, we talk to Toshiba’s senior manager for business development in storage, Rainer Kaese, about hard disk drives (HDDs) and why he thinks their future is assured for many years to come.

Flash drive per-gigabyte (GB) prices have dropped by more than 10% since March 2023 to an average of $0.075/GB this week. That’s down from around $0.09 per gigabyte six months ago. At the same time, ...

Weighing in at more than a ton and storing 5MB of data, the IBM 305 RAMAC was the first supercomputer with a hard disk drive (HDD). Introduced by IBM on September 13, 1956, RAMAC stood for “random ...