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HDD Prices Could Reportedly Fall to Just $10 Per 1TB by 2025!
While HDDs are certainly falling somewhat out of popularity due to the exceptionally fast speed offered with SSDs (and the latter certainly offering notably better value for money in recent years), I daresay that many of you reading this, like me, probably have at least one fat hard drive on…
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HDD Sales See a Huge 33% Drop in Sales!
As more and more consumers make the transition or upgrade to SSD storage devices, it’s hardly surprising that older standard HHD devices are falling in popularity. – Following a report via TechSpot, however, based on YoY (year on year) comparisons, HDD sales have plummeted by over 33% suggesting that the…
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Toshiba N300 10TB NAS HDD Review
I’ve had the pleasure to test the Toshiba N300 series in the past, but today it is time to take a look at the 10TB version of this drive. Other available capacities include 4TB, 6TB, 8TB, 12TB, and 14TB. So there should be one for every capacity need. Toshiba N300…
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Hard Disk Drive Shipments Projected to Drop by 50% in 2019
Market Projection from Japanese Company Nidec Nidec is a Japanese company that makes 85% of the motors inside hard disk drives. As such, their market analysis and projections are important in the industry. According to Nidec’s latest financial presentation however, hard disk drive shipments will drastically drop this year. This…
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Western Digital WD RED 8TB NAS HDD Review
Western Digital WD RED 8TB HDD Review The WD RED series by Western Digital is one that we’ve already have a lot of looks at. That doesn’t mean that we can’t have another one, does it? Today I’m putting the 8TB HDD through the paces and benchmarks. WD RED NAS…
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Osama Bin Laden While in Hiding Watched Cat Videos and Played Final Fantasy VII
Osama Bin Laden’s hard drive content! It is a common internet joke and meme, ‘in the event of my death delete my computers history’. It seems, however, that former terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden did not believe in such things. Then again, I guess he didn’t exactly see it coming, did…
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Western Digital Ships 12TB WD Gold Hard Drives
Western Digital is expanding their WD Gold Enterprise hard drive line with a new 12TB model. In addition to the new 12TB model, tThe entire WD Gold family includes 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 6TB, 8TB, and 10TB options. The Gold series delivers dependable performance and are designed with a workload rating…
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Toshiba N300 6TB NAS HDD Review
Introduction Toshiba released their new N300 series of hard disk drives designed for use with NAS devices a little while ago, and I’m pleased to have the 6TB capacity version in my lab for a closer look and some benchmarking today. Toshiba is one of the largest growing storage companies at…
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Seagate Announces Release of 12TB Enterprise HDD
Seagate introduced its newest enterprise-class hard disk drive at this weeks OCP summit and with it, they’re further strengthening their position in this market. The new drive provides you with 12TB capacity in a helium-filled 3.5-inch size. When we think of the previous 10TB drives, the increase in capacity might not…
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LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt USB-C 2TB Portable HDD Review
Introduction There can be multiple reasons why you will want your portable storage drive to be a rugged one. You might be on the road a lot for business or pleasure or perhaps you are just a clumsy user who tends to drop and spill things. You might also just want…
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Seagate Shuts Down 1 of 3 HDD Production Facilities
With the continued rise of the SSD, the decline of HDDs has continued to accelerate. Last year, HDD manufacturer Seagate announced a series of significant cuts aimed at cutting costs. As part of the reduction to drive production, the company is closing down their Suzhou, China facility. The plant represents one…
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Toshiba X300 6TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive Review
Introduction When it comes to storage, then solid state drives might get most of the hype these days. While that’s true, we shouldn’t forget the mechanical storage that still has some benefits over NAND-based storage. Not only do we get a lot more capacity from hard disk drives than we…
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Transcend Launches Portable HDD With Aluminum Alloy Finish
Transcend has launched their latest drive and this time the storage comes in a beautiful aluminium wrapping that gives your portable storage a level of style that few drives have to offer. The new Transcend StoreJet 25C3 is an extra-slim portable hard drive with a luxury aluminium alloy housing. It features a…
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Seagate IronWolf 10TB NAS HDD Review
Introduction With Seagate’s latest offensive on the storage market, we now have a wide variety of 10 TB drives for all sort of operations and in a market segment that is available for consumers. While SSDs have the speed advantage, HDDs are still the only way to go when you…
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Seagate NAS 8TB HDD in 4-Disk RAID Review
Introduction Picking the just the right storage drive for your task isn’t always an easy task, there are quite a few options on the market by now when it comes to high-capacity mechanical drives and today I’m taking a closer look at how one of the best performing NAS drives…
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