A disk refers to the physical storage medium itself, such as the magnetic platter in a hard disk drive (HDD) or the flash memory in a solid-state drive (SSD). It is the actual physical material that ...

HDD shipping capacity and revenue are projected to be over 6.5EB and between $25B and $35B by 2030. We project magnetic tape will ship over 400EB by 2030.

Before discussing the difference between “Size” and “Size on disk” in detail, let’s see the basic differences between these terms. Here, I will also show you some calculations that will give the exact ...