HGST, a Western Digital company, has announced that it is shipping the 6TB Ultrastar He6 hard disk drive. Revealed in September of last year, HGST’s HelioSeal platform makes way for higher capacity storage in the years to come while substantially lowering customer total cost of ownership (TCO). By using the inherent benefits of helium, the new Ultrastar
Synology DS114 and DS414 DiskStations Announced
Synology has announced the addition of two DiskStations to their SOHO/SMB product line, the DS114 and DS414. Both new DiskStations are optimized for business use and are designed to make remote access and file sharing quick and efficient.
WD Xe SAS Hard Drive Review
The WD Xe is a 6Gb/s SAS hard drive in a 2.5" 15mm form factor. The Xe drives spin at 10,000 RPM, offers a 32MB cache and provide throughput of up to 204MB/s. The drives are offered in capacities up to 900GB and a self encrypting drive (SED) option is available across the entire lineup.
Riverbed Launches New Whitewater Cloud Storage Appliances and WWOS Operating System
Riverbed Technology has announced new hardware and an updated operating system for its Whitewater family of cloud storage appliances. The new appliances incorporate up to three times the cache of existing Whitewater models and can manage up to 14.4 petabyte datasets, while the new Whitewater Operating System (WWOS) 3.0 allows pinning data to the local
How to Upgrade Corsair SSD Firmware
Corsair and other SSD manufacturers attempt to perfect their product before it hits the market, and while generally successful, occasionally Corsair needs to release a firmware update to perform a fix or to even increase the SSD's performance. Corsair is attempting to simplify the process for users as much as possible, and in doing so now
Seagate Enterprise Performance 10K.7 Review
The Seagate Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v7 is a 15mm 2.5" form factor drive that ships in a 1.2TB capacity, interfaces over 6Gb/s SAS, and, as the name implies, spins at 10K RPM. The 10K.7 succeeds the Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v6, aka the Savvio 10K.6 that we reviewed earlier this year, and with the new 10K.7, Seagate aims
HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 Enterprise SAS HDD Review
HGST’s Ultrastar 7K4000 is a 3.5" enterprise class HDD that ranges up to 4TB in capacity, features optional encryption and spins at 7,200RPM. The drive is designed for data centers, cloud storage, and backup and archiving. We previously reviewed the SATA 6Gb/s interface Ultrastar 7K4000 which made a splash when it was introduced due to its
HGST Ultrastar C10K900 Review
The HGST Ultrastar C10K900 is an enterprise-class, 2.5" HDD that interfaces over SAS, has a spindle speed of 10,000RPM and ranges up to 900GB in capacity. The Ultrastar C10K900 also comes in at a 14.8mm z-Height, classing it in the 15mm category. That small form factor helps to reduce organizations’ overall TCO, especially in networked storage arrays
Seagate NAS HDD Review
The Seagate NAS HDD is a 3.5" form factor, 6Gb/s SATA interface hard drive that spins at 5,900RPM, ranges up to 4TB in capacity and is specifically engineered to be installed in one to five-bay NAS devices. With the consumer and small office NAS market growing quickly and with buyers usually opting for diskless models, Seagate is responding to
WD Se HDD Review
The WD Se HDD is the company's latest 3.5" enterprise-class hard drive that ranges in capacities up to 4TB, spins at 7,200 RPM and interfaces over SATA 6Gb/s. The WD Se is designed to provide robust storage for large-scale NAS deployments, replicated environments, bulk cloud storage, and backup and archiving. The WD Se isn't geared toward




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