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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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TerraMaster Launches the D2 Clone Hard Drive Duplicator
TerraMaster, a professional brand that specializes in providing innovative storage products including network-attached storage (NAS) devices, has announced the launch of its brand new D2 Clone 2-slot drive cloning and enclosure. The TerraMaster D2 Clone is ideal for professional content creators, businesses, and users that handle large amounts of storage,…
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Seagate Hires Nvidia AI To Help Keep Their HDD Tech Alive
Seagate Hires Nvidia AI While we are not exactly seeing the death of the standard hard disk drive (HDD) with the expansion of ownership of solid state drives (SSD) and their much superior speeds, it would perhaps be fair to say that the days of HDDs might be numbered. It…
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Backblaze Publishes HDD Reliability Stats for Q2 2017
Cloud back and storage provider Backblaze has published their Q2 2017 statistics of hard drive failure rates. There are 83,151 drives in total in the report, 635 more from their Q1 report which saw the addition of 10,000 drives. The Q2 2017 report covers statistics from April 1, through June…
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Seagate Hits 35 Million SMR HDDs and Details HAMR Roadmap
During their recent call with investors, Seagate made a number of major announcements. Seagate is one of the few hard disk drive manufacturers remaining. The company remains one of the few innovators along with Western Digital and Toshiba. While SSD manufacturers have taken increasingly large chunks of the storage market, there…
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Seagate and Synology Bring Ironwolf Health Management to Synology NAS
Synology introduced a first beta version to their new Seagate IronWolf health management a little while ago and now the feature has become a full reality. Seagate and Synology have today announced the availability of IronWolf Health Management for Synology’s DiskStation Manager 6.1, a system. It leverages the hardware sensors and…
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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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Seagate Releases Last Generation of 15K Hard Drives
There was a time when 15K hard disk drives dominated the enterprise storage market. With their higher rotation speed compared to consumer drives, the 15K drives offered the improved and sustained performance demanded by data centers and enterprise customers. Now that NAND flash and SSDs are increasingly encroaching on this market,…
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Seagate Revises Earnings Forecast Down
With each year, the decline of hard drives continues on its inexorable course, bringing down the fortunes of the companies that manufacture them. In light of this, both Seagate and Western Digital have sought to diversify their portfolio to include NAND and other flash storage technologies. For Seagate though,…
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ASUS Travelair N Wireless 1TB Hard Disk Review
Introduction When it comes to storage you can either go the ordinary and boring route, or you can opt for something that breaks with the norm with more features than you would expect. I’m taking a closer look at ASUS’ Travelair N today which is a portable USB 3.0 hard…
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SSDs Could Approach Cost Parity With HDDs by 2017
While the cost of solid state drives (SSDs) has been falling incrementally for the last three years, it still costs 18 cents per gigabyte more to buy an SSD than a hard disk drive (HDD). However, if price continue to plummet at the present rate then that difference could drop…
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SSD Prices to Reach Parity with HDDs in 2016
It wasn’t too long ago that computer owners were celebrating solid state drive prices dropping below the $1/GB mark, but a new report suggests that SSD retail prices could soon fall in line with those of their cheaper mechanical equivalents, the hard disk drive (HDD). A forecast from InformationWeek predicts…
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LaCie Unveiled Mirror Portable Hard Drive
LaCie, a premium brand of Seagate’s, has introduced their new Mirror portable hard drive created by the French designer Pauline Deltour. The drive is enclosed in scratch resistant Gorilla Glass 3, making this 1TB drive both stylish and useful. “You have to look twice to discover the LaCie Mirror’s true ambition,”…
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Toshiba Updates with 6TB Enterprise HDDs
Toshiba has a long list of storage products from consumer hard drives over hybrid laptop drives and all the way to large-capacity enterprise grade hard disk drives. But data volume grows, especially in the enterprise section and to combat that ever-growing need, Toshiba created the 6TB version in their MG04…
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