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Backblaze Publishes Q2 2018 HDD Reliability Statistics
A Hard Drive Lifetime Retrospective Cloud back-up and storage provider Backblaze has published their Q2 2018 statistics of hard drive failure rates. Specifically, it covers the statistics between April 1 through June 30, 2018. This also includes the lifetime statistics as well for the data drive models within their data…
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Western Digital Closes HDD Factory and Shifts Toward SSDs
End of an Era for Western Digital Western Digital is shutting down their Malaysian hard drive factory, affecting nearly 3,000 local employees. The plant is located in Petaling Jaya, near the capital of Kuala Lumpur, and its closing also affects 6,000 foreign workers further. The company first started operating in Malaysia…
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Western Digital Expands with Mid-Range eHDD Offerings
Western Digital Corporation is expanding its portfolio with a new, mid-range series of 4TB, 6TB and 8TB air-based hard drives, the HGST Ultrastar 7K6 and Ultrastar 7K8. The new drives are aimed at enterprise setups which don’t require 10, 12, 14TB of storage per drive. Why pay for something you…
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Western Digital Shipping 14TB Ultrastar Hs14 HDDs
Despite the rise of SSDs and flash storage, good old hard disk drives are still spinning around. To remain competitive, hard drives are now pushing capacity and cost as their main features. Earlier in the month, Western Digital announced their latest 14TB HDDs. Today, we finally have more information on the…
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Western Digital Promises 40TB HDDs Thanks to Microwaves
Storage drives have come a long way in the past 10 years, but that’s nothing in comparison with what Western Digital has planned. The recent improvements to the possible capacity have been impressive, but they still rely on the same basic technology. That’s about to change as Western Digital introduced the…
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Western Digital Announces HGST Ultrastar SS300 12Gbps SAS SSD
Western Digital announces their latest addition to the line-up with the new HGST Ultrastar 12Gbps SAS SSD. The new drive is the company’s highest-performing SAS SSD to date. It was developed in partnership with Intel and the new Ultrastar SS300 delivers best-in-class random performance: Up to 400,000 IOPS random read…
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HGST Now Shipping Ultrastar He12 12TB Hard Drive
It has been about 5 months since Western Digital introduced the HGST He12 12TB hard drive and now the company announced that it’s shipping these new impressive drives. The impressive capacity is achieved through an eight-disk design, increasing the capacity of the previous models by as much as 20%. The…
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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 Releases 7.68TB HGST-Branded Ultrastar SS200 SAS SSD
Among Western Digitals announcements today, was an SAS Enterprise-Class drive too and we shouldn’t forget the SAS standard despite it being of age by now. It is still quite capable and WD shows that with their new Ultrastar SS200 SAS Enterprise-Class SSD designed for data centers. The Ultrastar SS200 SSD is…
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WD’s HGST Ultrastar SN200 NVMe SSD Hits 1.2mil IOPS
Western Digital had a big day today as they unveiled the latest generation and their take on some top-class storage drives. Among the new drives is the HGST-branded Ultrastar SN200 SSD which delivers next-generation NVMe PCIe storage capacity and speed. It should be said right away that these aren’t designed for…
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HGST Unveils The Ultrastar SN150 PCI-E NVMe SSD
NVMe storage devices offer astounding read/write speeds which make the SATA3 interface look extremely dated. Unfortunately, the NVMe storage hardware incurs a pretty hefty price premium and this doesn’t seem likely to change anytime soon. Nevertheless, they’re useful in high-end system and workstation environments. Today, Western Digital who owns the…
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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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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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HGST Partnered with CommVault For Improved Cloud Backup Abilities
High capacity storage solutions often run into one problem and that is the backup. When you deal with petabytes of data where even the archives need to be accessible at all times and in a proper way, it takes both software and hardware to make that happen. HGST, a part…
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The Event Horizon Telescope Will Use Helium Filled HGST Drives
We, as the human race, have accomplished quite a few impressive scientific things so far. We have been to the moon, we have vehicles driving around mars, and a probe that has left the solar system. We shouldn’t forget about the large hadron collider either, which discovered, or rather confirmed,…
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