It’s interesting that you don’t hear more about the use of Seagate EXOS drives in the NAS consumer space. They have a better specifications, and warranty than Seagate’s IronWolf or SkyHawk drives, and at least when I bought them they were also cheaper. In this video we unbox the drives, set them to 4k logical sector size, and compare performance […]
Read moreIf you pay attention to computer hardware, it’s obvious that NVMe rules the roost. All the benchmarks back this up, but seeing it on a chart doesn’t really have the same impact as seeing it. Which is why I really like the video that Techspot did highlighting the differences. It does get a little repetitive, so it’s OK to just […]
Read moreTwenty years ia a long time, especially in the computing world. While I think it’s quite likely that hard drives will still be around, I’m not convinced that no matter how hard companies like Seagate push the envelop that it will be a mainstream consumer technology that far in the future. If I had to guess it will be primarily […]
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If you have been computing long enough, eventually you will end up with a pile of old hard drives (HDD) and USB drives that are not useful anymore, but still work. The problem of course is that at one point they held potentially sensitive data, so while you could just format them and hope for the best it really is […]
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10TB is a gigantic amount of storage, but the size is not the biggest bit of news with WD’s announcement today. That would go to the use of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) in this Helium filled monster — which means that when combined with 7200RPM means that it should perform like a normal hard drive instead like slowly like its […]
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There’s a lot to like about Western Digital’s Red line of RAID friendly NAS hard drives, so it’s really nice to see them expanding the family to include a 4TB model and into the 2.5″ space (little NAS & HTPC friendly) with a 1TB model. PC Perspective has a review up to go with the launch. Head on over and […]
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March seems to be turning into the month for hard drive technology announcements. Last year, Samsung was showing off the first 4TB hard drives. This year, Seagate is showing off the technology that they expect to take hard drives up as high as 60TB. That technology is Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR), a system that uses lasers to flip the bits […]
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Hitachi was the first hard drive manufacturer to ship internal 4TB hard drives, but those early drives were also 5400rpm drives. While this no doubt suits the needs of most folks building home servers and general purpose media servers, it did leave more performance-oriented enthusiasts feeling a bit underwhelmed. Fortunately, Hitachi is mindful of that segment of the market’s need […]
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The floods in Thailand last year displaced over 12 million people and left large swathes of the country underwater, including factories that produced a large percentage of the world’s hard drives and hard drive components. Western Digital, the hard drive manufacturer most affected by the flooding, has been working to restore production and between their reconstruction efforts in Thailand and […]
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When Seagate launched their new 1TB-per-platter hard drives back in early November, Seagate also announced that they were doing away with the sub-7200 rpm Barracuda Green hard drive line. Their point at the time was that their high areal density drives could achieve comparable noise levels and power consumption levels even while running at 7200 rpm, negating the need for […]
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