Although most multi-bay external desktop enclosures in the market today offer consumers the ability to configure the mounted drives in RAID, BIG and/or JBOD the Black Vortex by ICY DOCK offers only the latter. Certainly although some people will obviously...
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Thanks to another partnership between Seagate and Huge Design (also the ones behind the 2.5″ Seven drive) the Innov8 is unlike any other 3.5″ external HDD model in the market today largely thanks to its “rugged/industrial” looks courtesy of the...
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Founded in 1979, Seagate is the leading provider of hard drives and storage solutions. From the videos, music and documents we share with friends and family on social networks, to servers that form the backbone of enterprise data centers and...
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Shuttle Inc., the global leader in small form factor computer technology, today announces the X50V5, an all-in-one PC with a 15.6” touchscreen and powered by an Intel Celeron 3855U dual-core processor. This is an excellent solution to drive kiosks, POS...
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The Armor A85 is another rugged drive for people frequently on-the-go from Silicon Power which does offer shock-proof, water-proof and dust-proof protection of a military-grade. While the product we have got for review does feature 500GB capacity (on a Seagate...
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For years the Hard Disk Drive was the mainstay of all commercial personal computers around the world. It’s had a bashing lately from the superb Solid State Drive technology, paving the future for fast, low power and robust main system storage. So where does this leave the not so humble HDD?
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If we compare the Enterprise NAS HDD 8TB model to the NAS HDD 8TB model we will see that their specifications sheet is identical in some areas and quite a bit different in others. For example both drives feature a...
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Seagate has revision 2 of their ARCHIVE series HDDs available. They offer various volume sizes but since I need to setup a new office NAS my eyes fell on the 8 TB versions, that’s right 8 Terabytes. OK, after formatting...
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The Enterprise NAS 8TB HDD by Seagate is based on a 6 platter design (1.33TB per platter), offers a MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) of up to 1.2 million hours and features cutting edge technologies such as AcuTrac, Power Balance,...
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The TS432U is a quad bay SATA III 3.5″ external desktop enclosure that features both USB 3.0 and eSATA connectivity for optimal data transfer rates. Teratrend has also equipped the TS432U with a completely tool-free slide-in design for the drives,...
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The AL13SXB60EN may just offer 600GB of storage capacity (also available in 450/300GB) but it’s probably one of the fastest 2.5-inch (15mm thick) enterprise-grade HDDs currently in the market since thanks to its SAS 12Gb/s connectivity (backwards compatible with 6,...
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The Archive HDD is currently available in 5, 6 and 8TB models and is aimed primarily towards large-scale data centers and users (mostly professionals) who require lots of space for backup purposes. To that end Seagate focused more in reliability...
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As many of you know to address the issues of power consumption, interior temperatures and noise levels manufacturers choose the easy way out and reduce the RPM of the drive from the “typical” 7200 most consumer desktop drives use down...
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Every year, no matter where you live, it gets cold in the winter. This natural occurrence drops temperatures, which could lead to hypothermia and for a very small portion, death. Winter temperatures in Sierra Nevada can chill you to the...
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Having already reviewed the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 V4 6TB SATA model we know that it’s nearly identical to its SAS brother since both rotate at 7200RPM, share the same average seek time of 4.16ms, have 128MB of cache memory,...
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