HDDs
Western Digital is gearing up to start sampling of its 28 TB nearline hard drive for hyperscalers. The new HDD will use the company's energy-assisted perpendicular magnetic recording (ePMR) technology with UltraSMR track layouts. Since both technologies are now familiar to hyperscalers, the validation and qualification of this hard drive should be relatively straightforward. "We are about to begin product sampling of our 28 TB UltraSMR drive," said David Goeckeler, chief executive of Western Digital, at the company's most recent earnings call. "This cutting-edge product is built upon the success of our ePMR and UltraSMR technologies with features and reliability trusted by our customers worldwide. We are staging this product for quick qualification and ramp as demand improves." Right now, Western Digital is shipping its 26...
Seagate Announces Enterprise Capacity 12 TB HDD: 2nd-Gen Helium-Filled Hard Drives
Seagate has introduced its second-generation of helium-filled HDDs. These drives will be aimed at capacity-demanding enterprise and cloud applications, and the new drives store up to 12 TB of...
21 by Anton Shilov on 3/16/2017
Toshiba Announces MN05ACA-Series HDDs: Up to 8 TB
Toshiba has announced a new family of 3.5" hard drives for home and SOHO NAS devices. The new MN-series HDDs have up to 8 TB of capacity and support...
23 by Anton Shilov on 2/15/2017
Seagate Confirms Plans for 12 TB HDD in Near Future, 16 TB HDD Due in 2018
The CEO of Seagate has confirmed plans to release new nearline harddrives with 12 TB capacity in the coming months, and HDDs with 16 TB capacity over the course...
31 by Anton Shilov on 1/30/2017
Seagate Launches 1 TB and 2 TB Enterprise Capacity 3.5-inch HDDs
Seagate has quietly added two enterprise-grade HDDs to its Enterprise Capacity lineup of hard drives. While the 'Enterprise' name has recently implied high-density products, the new 3.5” drives only...
26 by Anton Shilov on 1/19/2017
Seagate to Shut Down One of Its Largest HDD Assembly Plants
As a part of its cost-cutting efforts, Seagate has decided to shut down its HDD manufacturing plant in Suzhou, China. The factory is one of the company’s largest production...
44 by Anton Shilov on 1/13/2017
LaCie Launches Rugged and d2 Thunderbolt 3 Storage Devices
LaCie at CES introduced its new storage devices with Thunderbolt 3 interface. The new LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt USB-C and the LaCie d2 Thunderbolt 3 support 2.5” and 3.5” storage...
0 by Anton Shilov on 1/4/2017
Sharkoon Launches Rapid-Case USB 3.1 Type-C Storage Device DIY Kit
Sharkoon has introduced a DIY kit that lets users build their own external storage devices with the USB 3.1 Type-C interface. The kit is not expensive and resembles similar...
7 by Anton Shilov on 12/30/2016
Western Digital Announces Ultrastar He12 12 TB and 14 TB HDDs
Western Digital on Tuesday introduced its fourth-generation enterprise-class hard drives filled with helium. The HGST Ultrastar He12 HDD can store up to 12 TB of data, whereas its version...
26 by Anton Shilov on 12/9/2016
Seagate Announces Duet: An Amazon Cloud-Syncing Portable HDD for $99.99
Seagate this week has continued to introduce special-purpose storage devices tailored for select applications: the company is launching its Duet external hard drive that automatically downloads and uploads content...
12 by Anton Shilov on 12/2/2016
Seagate Revives Maxtor Brand for External Storage
UPDATE 12/1 9AM: Seagate confirmed Thursday that it decided to revive the Maxtor brand in a bid to sell value products. In the coming months the company plans to...
36 by Anton Shilov on 12/1/2016
Promise Launches Pegasus3 External Storage via TB3: Up to 48 TB, 1.6 GBps
Promise has introduced three new storage systems using the Thunderbolt 3 interface and aiming users of the recently introduced Apple MacBook Pro notebooks. The new Pegasus3 Symply Editions can...
7 by Anton Shilov on 11/16/2016
Seagate Introduces Backup Plus Portable 5 TB: The Largest Portable HDD to Date
Seagate this week formally introduced its Backup Plus Plus Portable Drive external HDD with a 5 TB capacity that is based on the recently launched top-of-the-range BarraCuda 2.5” drive...
10 by Anton Shilov on 11/16/2016
LaCie Launches 6big and 12big: Up to 60/120 TB External Storage with Thunderbolt 3
LaCie this week has introduced two new workstation-grade external storage solutions using Thunderbolt 3 with the focus on big on-the-desk data storage. The 6big and 12big devices pack in...
41 by Anton Shilov on 11/1/2016
Seagate Introduces New Generation of Enterprise Performance 15K HDDs with NAND Caching
Seagate on Tuesday announced its new generation of hard drives with 15K spindle speed and up to 900 GB capacity. The new HDDs use NAND caching to boost response...
11 by Anton Shilov on 10/26/2016
Seagate Launches FireCuda SSHDs: Up to 2 TB, SMR, 8 GB of NAND
Seagate has officially introduced its fifth-generation solid-state hybrid drives (SSHDs) under the FireCuda brand name. They have a thinner form-factor compared to previous-gen solutions. The drives use Seagate’s 1...
47 by Anton Shilov on 10/21/2016
Seagate Introduces BarraCuda 2.5” HDDs with Up to 5 TB Capacity
Seagate has formally introduced a new family of hard drives in the 2.5” form-factor. It is designed for laptops as well as external storage solutions. The new BarraCuda HDDs...
30 by Anton Shilov on 10/21/2016
Western Digital Adds Helium-Filled WD Gold 10 TB HDD to Lineup
Western Digital has this week introduced its new 10TB datacenter-class helium-filled WD Gold hard drive. This drive, according to WD, boasts higher performance compared to its predecessor combined with...
34 by Anton Shilov on 8/4/2016
G-Technology Introduces G-Drive and G-RAID External HDDs up to 20 TB
G-Technology this week introduced several new models of its G-Drive and G-RAID products with Thunderbolt 1, USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt 2 soltions. These are direct attached storage (DAS) devices...
16 by Anton Shilov on 7/22/2016
Seagate BarraCuda Pro 10TB Helium HDD Capsule Review
Seagate has introduced a trio of 10TB hard drive models today, as part of the launch of their new Guardian series. There are three main parts to the series...
69 by Ganesh T S on 7/19/2016
Seagate's New 'Guardian Series' Portfolio Brings 10TB Helium HDDs to Consumers
Our recent interview with Seagate's CTO, Mark Re, gave us an idea about of the future of the hard drive market. As late as Q1 2016, Seagate had considered...
18 by Ganesh T S on 7/19/2016
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