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Toshiba Announces 18TB MG09 HDD
Toshiba is preparing to release their new HDD models, which will be their first with “energy-assisted magnetic recording”. The new MG09 Series of drives employ their 3rd generation 9-disk helium-sealed design, allowing a staggering 2TB per disk in the stack. The end result is a “humble” 3.5″ HDD that can…
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Seagate Announces Exos X14 14TB Helium PMR HDD
Seagate’s First 14TB PMR Drive for Enterprise Seagate is introducing their first 14 TB capacity which does not use shingled magnetic recording like WDC’s HGST HS14 2nd gen. Instead, this drive called the Exos X14 is filled with helium and uses perpendicular magnetic (PMR) platters. It still operates at 7200…
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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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Western Digital Launches 12TB and 14TB HGST Ultrastar HDDs
Just when we thought that 10TB hard disk drives were impressive, Western Digital announces both 12TB and 14TB drives. Initially, the company will launch the Ultrastar He12 Helium HDD which is an industry-first eight-disk design. The standard 3.5-inch form factor drive is using PMR technology to achieve the 12TB capacity over the…
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WD Increases Gold HDD Capacities
While SSDs continue to grow in both speed and capacity, hard disk drive makers aren’t sitting still either. In an effort to maintain their hold on the storage business, they’ve both increased capacity and improved their speeds. To this end, Western Digital has released an updated to their Gold series of…
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Seagate Ships 10TB Helium HDDs
With the rise of SSDs, hard drive manufacturers have turned to capacity as their major stronghold. Earlier this year, Seagate revealed their first 10TB hard disk drive, challenging Western Digital’s own 10TB drive. Like other high capacity drives, the 10TB model requires the use of helium. The drives have now…
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Western Digital Releases ‘Gold’ HDDs for Datacenters
Coloured drives have long been a mainstay of Western Digital branding. The old Blue, Black, and Greens were supplemented in recent years by the addition of the Red and Purple lineups. Today, Western Digital has released a new colour, Gold, for the datacenter. The new Gold WD HDDs will co-exist…
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German Stellarator Fusion Reactor Testing Deemed a Success
It’s no secret that this is the nuclear age, that is the age where nuclear technology will go its greatest to shaping the world. From its use as a weapon during world war 2 to our future hopes of using it as a power source, the atom is changing the…
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Seagate Launches Their Own Helium HDD
Even as rival HGST started shipping helium based drives several years back, Seagate had managed to keep up in terms of capacity with less exotic technology. That’s all set to change as Seagate has finally launched their own helium based 10TB HDD. The new drive will do battle with the…
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HGST’s Helium-Filled Ultrastar He10 10TB HDD Now Shipping
The world’s first 10TB perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) hard disk drive is now officially shipping and it is naturally HGST’s helium-filled Ultrastar He10. This is the third generation helium drives out of the Western Digital Corporation and it offers an impressive 25% increase in capacity over the previous generation. Customers…
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Buffalo Introduces DriveStation Ultra 10-Bay Thunderbolt 2 DAS
Buffalo America has just introduced their latest storage offering and this time it isn’t an NAS but a DAS instead. DAS stands for direct attached storage and it’s as such directly connected to another system instead of sharing the stored data over the network like an NAS does. Other than…
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HGST Launched the 10TB Ultrastar Archive Ha10 HDD
HGST has set a new standard for mechanical hard drives with their helium filled drives and the latest one based on that technology have just been launched. The new HGST Ultrastar Archive HA10. brings 10TB of storage capacity specially designed for Active Archive applications. This is the third drive based…
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QNAP Now Officially Supports HGST’s 8TB Ultrastar HE8 HDDs
Just because a hard disk exists doesn’t mean it is ideal to be used in every system, or there might just be a few tweaks that need to be made in order to ensure that the drives capabilities are fully utilised among other things. QNAP just announced that their powerful enterprise-class…
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Archos’ First LTE Smartphones To Debut At CES 2014
Archos has revealed some 4G LTE smartphones that the company is thinking of showing at the upcoming CES 2014. Namely, the Archos 45 Helium 4G and 50 Helium 4G are Archos’ first LTE smartphones which will be released on the market. Both devices will have Android 4.3 pre-installed, with a…
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First 6TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives Released By HGST
Hitachi started shipping the first drive to feature a helium filling, a concept it first unveiled back in 2012 as a means to boost capacity by around 40 per cent compared to traditional mechanical drives. The helium filling was possible by shrinking the gap between platters and fit seven platters…
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