Dubbed the largest NAS optimized drive on today’s market, Seagate has announced their 8TB NAS HDD, allowing businesses to use both fewer drives and fewer costly enclosures. As such, the new 8TB drives are specifically built for tower enclosures with one to eight bays for upwards of 64TB in a single eight-bay desktop form factor.
Today Western Digital announced that it is shipping the world’s first 10TB perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) HDD, the HGST Ultrastar He10. Though a 10TB drive was announced earlier this year it was an SMR drive. The He10 is drop in ready and currently has the highest capacity, lowest power consumption per TB, and highest reliability rating on the
Today at the China Public Security Expo (CPSE) 2015 in Shenzhen, China, Seagate Technology announced the highest capacity surveillance drive with its 8TB surveillance hard drive disk (HDD). Last month Seagate announced that it was able to bump up the capacity in several of its other HDDs. These new HDD is the highest capacity HDD on the
In yet another integration story this month, Seagate announced today that it would now completely and without restriction integrate the Samsung hard drive into Seagate. Similar to the decision to allow WD to fully integrate HGST, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced its decision to allow Samsung HDD business to be integrated into Seagate restriction
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. announced its newest line of enterprise performance HDDs, the AL14SE series. The AL14SE series is designed for mission critical servers and high-performance, high-availability storage systems. The new HDD series is a 10,500RPM drive series that supports 12Gbit/s SAS and 512n sector length making it compatible with the latest generation host
Toshiba has announced four new additions to their portfolio of performance HDDs, the X300, P300, E300, and L200 series. The new hard disk drives are built to meet consumers’ most intense storage needs, which include three desktop models and one mobile option. The new 3.5-inch desktop internal HDDs include the Toshiba X300 Series, built for
Today Seagate Technology announced that it was releasing a higher capacity version of several of its drives. The drives will now top out at 8TB and this new capacity will be available for the Enterprise Capacity 3.5”, Enterprise NAS, and Kinetic HDD. Increasing the capacity of these drives gives businesses of all sizes the ability to increase capacity
The Linux Foundation announced its new effort to define and promote open source software and standards for cloud object storage technologies, the Kinetic Open Storage Project. This project brings together several industry leaders including Cisco, Cleversafe, Dell, Digital Sense, Huawei, NetApp, Open vStorage, Red Hat, Scality, Seagate, SwiftStack, Toshiba and Western Digital.
WD has announced the addition of 5TB and 6TB capacities to its WD Red Pro line of hard drives, which are designed for NAS systems equipped up to 16 drive bays and businesses with more expansive storage requirements than the standard WD Red drives. We previously reviewed the WD Red Pro 4TB model.
Starting in 2012 hard drive vendors got serious about producing duty-specific hard drives. With the growth of the NAS, surveillance, and cloud-based categories aligning well with massive data explosion, the pains around storing lots of data in a cost effective manner became real for everyone from individuals through large enterprises. It's unsurprising then that hard drive vendors
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