I’ve been using computers for almost 25 years now (14 of which professionally) and if someone asked me to choose a single hardware component that hasn’t changed even a bit in terms of functionality since the day i ordered my...
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Tag: HDD
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In today’s market, we have an unreal amount of storage solutions, ranging from the smallest of flash drives to the largest RAID towers. Some of these units are designed to be insanely fast, and some are designed for their durability....
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In this article, we will examine the performance of four 4TB WD Reds in RAID modes 0, 5, and 10. This should give a good idea of performance outside the traditional NAS box for those of you wanting to build...
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Seagate’s wide range of enterprise HDD products encompass every workload requirement. We have evaluated the Enterprise Turbo SSHD, the Enterprise Performance 10K v7, and the Enterprise Capacity ES.3. Today, we are rounding out the Seagate product stack with the Savvio...
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The WD Xe is designed for mainstream server and storage applications. The Xe comes in capacities of 300, 450, 600, and 900 GB in a 2.5-inch form factor. The Xe spins at 10,000 RPM, has 32MB of cache, and features...
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Storage racks come in all shapes and sizes. Depending on its intended use, you can have a solution that fits just a few drives or a full on monster that can hold upwards of twelve drives. In the lab today,...
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If you have ever found yourself in the position where you’re trying to recover massive amounts of data, then you surely know how important an external storage solution can be to maintaining a scheduled backup. Whether they are large DAS...
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The Toshiba MG03SCA is a 3TB 6Gb/s SAS Enterprise HDD that has been the lynchpin of general storage for entry-level server workloads and capacity-intensive Tier 2 networked storage systems. The MG03 series, in both SATA and SAS flavors, has made...
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Today Seagate announced the launch of its seventh-generation hard drive line specifically designed for use in video surveillance data storage systems. The newly refreshed surveillance HDD is a 3.5-inch drive available in capacities up to 4TB, leading up to a...
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We have covered plenty of NAS HDDs here at TweakTown, and the reason is simple: more and more users are purchasing NAS units every day. The expansion of NAS capabilities allows them to serve a much wider use-case than just...
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The ADATA DashDrive Air AE800 Wireless HDD and Power Bank, which Benchmark Reviews recently had a chance to look at in detail, is a very interesting device indeed. It is clear that the goal here was to develop a piece...
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Western Digital announced the release of the WD Black2 dual drive, a unique storage innovation that fuses a 2.5-inch 120 GB solid state drive (SSD) with a 1 TB hard disk drive (HDD) to offer a powerful dual drive solution....
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A company called DataSlide has decided its not time for mechanical disk drives also known as hard disk drives (HDD) to roll over and die with SSDs beating them in just about every aspect other than price. The key aspect...
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