Western Digital is completely sold out of hard drive production capacity through 2026 due to massive demand from AI data centers. PCWorld reports that hard drive prices have surged nearly 50% in just ...

PC gaming has been off to a rough start in 2026, with both RAM and graphics cards facing massive stock issues, due to demand from AI datacenters. It looks like hard drives are next. Both Seagate and ...

1.36% overall HDD failure rate reported as one drive maker says it's sold out for 2026. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Thanks to data center demands, Western Digital has committed all of its HDDs for at least the rest of the year. Reading time 2 minutes We’ve been taking the humble external hard disk drive for granted ...

Not content with hoarding all the RAM, AI companies are buying up hard drives too, with one major manufacturer admitting it’s run out of stock. It’s ironic that gaming companies like Sony and ...

At its recent Innovation Day 2026 event, Western Digital previewed two technologies in development to increase HDD throughput: high bandwidth drive technology (HBDT) and dual pivot technology (DPT).

With Western Digital and Seagate, two of the three remaining hard drive manufacturers worldwide have confirmed that they have already sold their production quotas for 2026 completely or almost ...

Western Digital (WDC) surged 63.4% year-to-date after selling out its entire 2026 HDD production capacity to AI data centers. Western Digital generates 89% of revenue from hyperscaler AI cloud versus ...

Transocean (RIG 0.47%), an offshore rig company, closed Tuesday at $6.14, down 6.12%. Today’s drop could be a result of profit-taking after last week’s 52-week high or a reassessment of its all-stock ...

An orrery is a beautiful type of mechanical contrivance, built to demonstrate the motion of heavenly objects. LEGO happens to offer just such a device, built using its Technic line of blocks, shafts, ...