Hitachi and Western Digital have recently announced products that finally hit the 100 GB/platter mark. HGST’s Deskstar 7K500 utilizes the firm’s unique five-platter design in conjunction with 100 GB/platter disks to achieve a flagship capacity of 500 GB. Western Digital, sticking with a more conservative three-platter design, manages 320 GB out of its workhorse Caviar

An upcoming review of Fujitsu’s 10,000 RPM MAT3000 will mark the final drive to be tested under our landmark Testbed3 configuration. The constant 2 GHz P4 configuration has carried us well for over three years. It’s time, however, to update the hardware, operating system, and, perhaps most important of all, the disk usage captures that

We finally stand at the cusp of SCSI’s next-generation offerings. Within the next two weeks readers may expect reviews of Seagate’s Cheetah 15K.4, Fujitsu’s MAU3147, and Maxtor’s Atlas 15K II. These awesome drives stand as “signature products” of sorts. Which firm will lay claim to the “fastest drive that money can buy” title? We’ll see

While surfing the net… elsewhere… we’ve seen some interesting comments from avid enthusiasts regarding the Maxtor Atlas 10K V vs. the WD Raptor WD740GD. In our recent review of the Atlas 10K V, graphs showcase the Atlas handily crushing the Raptor in both server as well as non-server (i.e., single-user) settings. When it comes to

An intrepid reader today entered the 30,000th drive into the StorageReview Drive Reliability Survey. The Reliability Survey strives to collate the experience of thousands of SR readers and delivers insight into one of the murkiest attributes of hard drives- reliability. Participants that share their results with others benefit the community though continuing to build the

Today Hitachi announced its entry into the next-generation 15,000 RPM landscape with the Ultrastar 15K147. Like other upcoming offerings, the 15K147 combines a svelte access time with 15K RPM spindle speeds and a flagship 147 gigabyte capacity. Unlike the competition, however, the Ultrastar spreads the data across five rather than four platters. Still, considering that

It unfortunately appears that we won’t be able to deliver on our promise to cover the big three new 15,000 RPM offerings by our (slightly stretched) deadline of the 29th. We sorely hoped to have the Atlas 15K II in the testbed before the holiday weekend- looks like that won’t happen. It’s a shame… if

The Maxtor MaXLine III‘s impressive performance coupled with its admirable acoustics makes it an easy choice as our new Desktop Leaderboard choice.

Seagate today announced that it was immediately backing all of its internal drives (notebook, ATA, and, of course, SCSI) purchased from June 1st onwards with a 5-year warranty. This reverses a trend where many ATA hard drives had their warranties trimmed down to one-year. The one-year warranty policy rolled out by manufacturers nearly two years