Storage speed differences made real

If 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 […]

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Will hard drives hang on for 20 more years?!

Twenty 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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Goodness me, that’s a lot of storage.

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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Hitachi Takes 4TB Hard Drives to 7200rpm

Hitachi 4TB

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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Western Digital Working to Restore Pre-Flood Manufacturing Output by September

Western Digital Hard Drive

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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Seagate Barracuda 3TB Reviewed

Seagate Barracuda

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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