Storage refreshes usually come in two flavors. There’s the quiet uplift, where a vendor rolls in a new CPU, claims a few percentage points of performance, and ships the same chassis with a different sticker. And then there’s the generational reset, where the chassis, drives, interconnect, cache architecture, and management plane all move at once.
Backup and recovery infrastructure has always been the part of the data center that gets the most attention when something goes wrong, but that pattern has shifted. Ransomware has made backup the last line of defense rather than an insurance policy, and the operational expectations have shifted accordingly. Recovery times that were acceptable five years
Infrastructure for cyber resilience occupies a position in the enterprise stack that primary storage does not. When a system fails, data becomes corrupted, or ransomware locks an organization out of its environment, recovery ultimately depends on the backup platform. That reality has sustained strong demand for purpose-built backup appliances even as cloud-based alternatives have expanded.
There are two stories in the Dell Pro Max 16 Plus, and they pull in opposite directions. One is a top-tier mobile workstation: Intel’s 24-core Core Ultra 9 285HX, up to 256GB of CAMM2 memory, three M.2 slots, NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell graphics up to the 5000-series with 24GB of GDDR7, MIL-STD-810H build, and a
The DapuStor R6060 is a PCIe Gen5 enterprise QLC SSD built around the company’s DP800 controller and 3D QLC NAND. The series spans U.2, E3.L, and E1.L form factors, with capacities of 15.36TB, 30.72TB, 61.44TB, and 122.88TB, plus a 245TB SKU at the top of the stack. The interface supports PCIe 5.0 x4 or 2×2
The Seagate IronWolf Pro 32TB is the NAS-tuned member of Seagate’s first 32TB CMR generation, announced alongside matching 32TB Exos and SkyHawk AI variants in 2026, and has been shipping through Seagate’s channel since January. The drive is built on the Mozaic3+ platform, which uses heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) to push areal density past 3TB
Two things tend to come up first whenever the conversation turns to the NVIDIA DGX Spark. The first is the headline spec: 128 GB of unified memory in a roughly $4,000 desktop box, a number that would have seemed implausible to put on an engineer’s desk even two years ago. The second is the 200
The ORICO X50 is a Thunderbolt 5 portable SSD line for those who want external storage with much more bandwidth than a standard USB drive. ORICO is offering it in a few different forms, including a diskless version and preconfigured 512GB, 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB models, so it can work either as a ready-to-use portable
The DGX Spark platform is familiar territory for us at this point. We’ve reviewed the Dell, ASUS, Acer, and Gigabyte takes on NVIDIA’s GB10 Grace Blackwell reference design, and the core ingredients are consistent across all of them: 1,000 TOPS of FP4 compute, 128GB of unified LPDDR5x memory, and dual 200GbE networking in a 150mm
LaCie has been a fixture in our lab for well over a decade. From the 8big Rack Thunderbolt 2 we covered in 2014 through the many generations of 5big, 6big, 8big, and Rugged devices that have followed, the formula has been consistent: premium Neil Poulton-designed enclosures, Seagate drives inside, Mac-centric polish, a solid warranty, and a
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