With today’s introduction of its Ultrastar C10K147, Hitachi throws its hat into the 2.5″ “small form factor” (SFF) arena and joins competing products from Seagate and Fujitsu. In part driven by the continuing maturation and acceptance of the SAS interface (which continues to displace the disparate 80-pin SCA-style and 68-pin SCSI connector styles with a

Seagate today finally marks its long-awaited entry into the one-terabyte drive arena. Manufactured around a 4-platter design (as opposed to the 5 platters found in the already-shipping Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000), the new drive will be available as a consumer oriented unit, the Barracuda 7200.11, and an enterprise-targeted Barracuda ES.2. With this new generation Seagate makes

Packing 334 GB per platter, the F1 achieves its massive 1-terabyte capacity utilizing just 3 discs. Like the Deskstar 7K1000, the series ups the ante with a 32 MB buffer. With a 1.2 million hour MTBF spec, the F1 also represents Samsung’s first foray into the enterprise-class SATA drive market. SAMSUNG’S NEW ONE TERABYTE HARD

Some SR readers may recall how Seagate introduced the Cheetah 10K.7 as the last 10K RPM Cheetah, ceding sub-15K operation to its 2.5″ Savvio and SATA nearline-oriented drives. Today, however, the firm backpedals… somewhat. The Cheetah NS takes the basic mechanical and electrical platform introduced by Seagate with the Cheetah 15K.5 and shaves the drive’s

It’s the one that just won’t go away! Topics and inquiries pepper the SR discussion forum on a regular basis regarding pros and cons, configuration, RAID levels, etc. Thus, it might be time to remind readers of some standing resources here at SR that aim to assist readers with everything RAID: Front and center is

On the entry-level front, Seagate recently announced its low-profile Barracuda ST3250x10AS series, units that utilize ever-maturing perpendicular magnetic recording technology to achieve a 250-gigabyte capacity through the use of a single platter. Seagate goes on to mention that these platters will form the basis for a yet-to-be-announced terabyte unit. As usual, SR readers have already

Perhaps long overdue, the StorageReview Leaderboard has received an update to reflect the recent reviews of current products. Moving into three slots is Seagate with its adept notebook-oriented Momentus 7200.2 and its virtual one-size-fits-all Cheetah 15K.5 line. Check out the full changes here. We do, however, have a full spate of reviews coming up just

This week Hitachi expands its 5400 RPM Travelstar 2.5″ notebook-oriented drive line to 250 GB, joining products previously announced by Samsung and Western Digital. Hitachi’s press release in particular touts the Travelstar’s history of leading performance, one confirmed by StorageReview’s own testing… the drive’s predecessor, the 5K160, offers excellent performance as outlined in our recently-published

Today WD introduces its next Caviar SE16, a 4-platter unit that extends the firm’s flagship to 750 gigabytes. In addition to featuring the standard 8.9 millisecond seek time and 16 megabyte buffer specs, the Caviar WD7500AAKS incorporates intelligent seeking that, rather than always putting the pedal to the metal, moves the actuator just fast enough