Developments in HDD Technology Provide Consumer Services [The Art of Storage

Abstract

Although flash memory has been the technology of choice for mobile consumer applications, for fixed devices in the home, such as set-top boxes and external backup devices, hard disk drives (HDDs) still provide the best bang for the buck. In addition, the vast bulk of the data that consumers access from the cloud lives on enterprise HDDs. Here is a look at some of the recent developments in HDD technology and how they are used in consumer applications.