A backlog of drives has accumulated while we work to deploy Testbed4. There’s been demand for reviews of the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 as well as Western Digital’s Caviar WD3200JD. On the SCSI side of things, Hitachi’s Ultrastar 10K300 and 15K147 have patiently waited for a review. To expedite SR’s take on these drives, we’ve temporarily

Things have been too quiet here around SR, thanks largely due to continued behind-the-scenes work on our next-generation testbed. When researching the configuration and methodologies associated with our previous test machine, we had the luxury of continuing with prompt reviews of new products in an existing machine. Testbed4 is not as sweeping a change as

The StorageReview Leaderboard has been updated to reflect recent reviews of the latest-genereation SCSI drives. Next up: Testbed4!

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