Toshiba’s new 3TB hard disk drive is a record breaker
Toshiba unveiled a new 3TB hard disk drive that’s crammed into a 2.5-inch form factor. The MQ03ABB300 is the smallest such hard disk drive and kickstarts another potential round of product launches....
View ArticleWhich hard drive is the best? Here’s a clue
Cloud storage company BackBlaze has published the second edition of its annual hard drive failure report which analyses, dissects and determines the failure rates for spinning HDDs it purchased. Many...
View ArticleWestern Digital releases ultra-low powered data center drive
Western Digital has introduced a collection of new data center hard drives that claim to have the lowest power consumption of any high capacity 3.5-inch drive on the market today. The WD Re+ range is...
View ArticleInterview: SDN and HAMR are key to Seagate’s near future
"Watch this space", Joe Fagan, Senior Director Cloud Initiatives, EMEA at Seagate, told me when I queried him regarding the drive for a new hard disk form factor in the hyperscale market that...
View ArticleInterview: Seagate hints at return of extinct hard drive form factor
"What out this space", Joe Fagan, Senior Director Cloud Initiatives, EMEA at Seagate, told me when I queried him about an earlier statement of his regarding the drive for a new hard disk form factor...
View ArticleInterview: Helium hard drives to become mainstream says HGST
After Seagate, we caught up – twice – with HGST, a WD company, to get an update on their plans. The HDD maker has announced that it wants to push helium into hard disk drives as fast as possible. It...
View ArticleUpdated: Top 9 best internal desktop and laptop hard disk drives
Introduction and drives 1-4 What’s the best hard drive you can buy? Your hard drive is out of date if its capacity is measured in Gigabytes. Even a Terabyte of space can seem cramped when you’re...
View ArticleThis laptop drive holds a fifth of the British Library, slips in your back...
While hard disk drive vendors have managed to hit the mythical 10TB barrier, SSD manufacturers are not far behind. In fact, a little known Japanese company, Fixstars, has unveiled a 6TB SSD that can...
View ArticleOpinion: How Toshiba’s new storage device could change the data centre
Poor hard disk drive; advances in silicon manufacturing have allowed solid state drives to capture the headlines leaving the traditional spindle-spinning devices in the shadows. But things are about...
View ArticleYou could store 400 Blu-ray movies on HGST’s new 10TB hard drive
8TB hard disk drives from Seagate have been flooding the consumer market for a few months now, and the company’s rivalry with HGST is bound to go up a notch after the latter announced a 10TB hard disk...
View ArticleSamsung’s 4TB portable hard drives fit in your pocket, can store 150 Blu-rays
Samsung HDD, which is owned by Seagate, has unveiled two new external hard disk drives, the M3 Portable and the P3 portable that are the first 4TB hard disk drives in a 2.5-inch form factor. Both of...
View ArticleSeagate’s 4TB hard drive fits in your hand, stores 800 DVDs
Just days after its subsidiary launched a 4TB external hard disk drive that is powered by USB, Seagate unveiled its own. Samsung HDD was the first to come out with these high capacity drives, the M3...
View ArticleHuge 18TB hard drives will soon be here
Helium-using hard disks will push storage capacities up to the 18TB mark in just a couple of years, according to a new report. Storage research firm TrendFocus reckons that drive manufacturers will be...
View ArticleToshiba plays catch up with 8TB performance hard drive
The competition is heating up at the top end of the hard disk drive market with Toshiba finally announcing its first 8TB hard disk drive, the X300, one aimed at the high performance market: that’s...
View ArticlePlanning to buy an SSD? You absolutely must read this
A new survey from data recovery firm Kroll Ontrack has found that SSDs suffer from a worryingly high failure rate. The research, which encompassed some 1,850 customers across North America, Europe and...
View ArticleUpdated: Top 10 Best SSDs of 2016 in the UK
Introduction Size does matter. And when it comes to SSDs, size costs too. At least, it did. Back in 2008, Intel launched its first solid state drive aimed at mere punters rather than enterprise...
View ArticleSilicon Week: What’s in store: The tech that will transform memory and storage
Introduction and 3D XPoint A few months ago, we took an aging laptop and brought it kicking and screaming into 2016. We quadrupled the RAM, swapped the hard disk for an SSD and transformed it from a...
View ArticleHeat will help us build the ultra-dense hard drives of the future
The amount of data storage it’s possible to cram onto the same area of magnetic hard drive platter rises every year – we’re fast approaching multiple terabytes per square centimetre. As it does, a...
View ArticleSeagate unleashes the world’s biggest portable hard drive
The company also has a nifty sounding FireCuda HDD pitched at gamers. Continue reading here: Seagate unleashes the world’s biggest portable hard drive
View ArticleTop 10 best external desktop and portable hard disk drives of 2016
Give your files a safe home with our pick of the best external hard drives, rated for value, size and portability. Read this article: Top 10 best external desktop and portable hard disk drives of 2016
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