Also known less formally as the Caviar RE2 and Caviar SE16 respectively, this pair of 400-gigabyte offerings from Western Digital has generated quite a few questions across the SR Discussion Community. Both drives share a similar set of features yet one seems to be oriented for enterprise use whereas the other seems to target the

The StorageReview Leaderboard has once again shuffled around a bit to reflect the new spate of SATA drives to hit our new test machine. With Seagate, Maxtor, and WD all getting serious about nearline-class storage, we’ve also created a new category to cover the emerging sector. Check out the changes!

This week Maxtor formally threw its hat into the 500 GB arena with the announcement of a trio of related offerings. The traditional DiamondMax 11 extends upon the firm’s long-standing consumer offering by upping platter density from the DM10’s 100 GB/platter to 125 GB/platter and by returning to a four-disc design. The drive features a

StorageReview’s unique Drive Comparator has been fully updated with the results pouring in from our newest testbed and methodology. This database allows you to custom compare all drives reviewed under our latest testbed with one another. A drop-down menu offers sorts of all tested drives by the benchmark of your choosing, while checkboxes within the

The long-awaited introduction of Testbed4 has shaken up things on the Leaderboard for the first time in 9 months. Be sure to check out the changes. StorageReview’s unique Drive Performance Database will be updated soon to incorporate the latest figures from the new test system. Stay tuned for that update. Regarding individual drive reviews, first

Seagate today announced shipment of its NL35 series to the channel- a family that some may remember was announced by the firm as early as April of last year. The drive targets the growing nearline sector, drives servicing data that require true real-time random access where capacity and cost concerns outweigh blinding speed. Drives such

One of the key changes in the impending Testbed4 rollout will be the way we deal with measuring the heat generated by hard drives. As we worked behind the scenes to expand SR’s coverage to notebook drives, we knew that power consumption remained a key facet of tests. To satisfy this end, we commissioned the

This time around we’ve released an advanced look at how current drives stack up in the StorageReview High-End DriveMark 2006. While the Office DriveMark examines drive performance with everyday tasks such as word processing and web browsing, the High-End DriveMark subjects disks to the patterns generated by applications such as photo and video editing. Check

It’s been a long time in coming, and many readers have repeatedly been asking for results. The good news is that most Testbed4 figures have been finalized. While the formal write up looms, we’ve started to informally release results to the SR community via the forums. First up is the the replacement for our main