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Seagate Exos X14 14TB Enterprise HDD Review
Seagate Exos X14 14TB This is an exciting review today as I got the pleasure to check out the brand new 14TB Seagate Exos X14 enterprise-grade HDD. Since the Exos drives are enterprise drives, they aren’t part of the Guardian series; But they could have been. They are all built…
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Western Digital Introduces Ultrastar DC SS530 SAS SSD
Western Digital Introduces Ultrastar DC SS530 Western Digital introduced a great new drive that isn’t the everyday type. The new Ultrastar DC SS530 is a SAS SSD and it is the company’s highest-density drive and the fastest dual-port SAS SSD in the market. With it, storage array manufactures can offer their…
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Toshiba Introduces RM5 Enterpise Value SAS SSDs
New Game Changing SAS SSDs Toshiba is adding a new drive called the RM5 for their enterprise storage portfolio. This RM5 12Gbit/s value SAS (vSAS) series drive features capacity, performance, reliability, manageability and data security advantages. All at a lower price that seeks to render SATA enterprise SSDs obsolete. Unlike SATA SSDs, the…
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Western Digital Introduces the Ultrastar DC HC530 14TB HDD
New Drive with 14TB HelioSeal Design Western Digital Corporation is introducing the Ultrastar DC HC530 hard drive. It is currently the highest capacity conventional magnetic recording (CMR) drive currently available at 14TB. Built on WD’s 5th Gen HelioSeal technology, the Ultrastar DC HC530 drive is designed for cloud environments. Especially…
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Toshiba AL14SX 15000RPM SAS eHDD RAID Review
Due to circumstances that happened during my review of the Toshiba AL14SX SAS HDD, I ended up with two drives in my office. So what’s more obvious than testing the scalability of these drives in a RAID setup. I rarely get the chance to take advantage of my SAS controllers…
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SMART Modular Introduces 50TB MLC-Based SSD
Smart Modular introduced a new drive and called it the Osmium Drive. And what a drive it is, wow. 50TB MLC-based SAS solid state drive goodness in a classic 3.5-inch form factor. “We’re excited to offer an ultra-high-capacity SAS drive to the market,” states Mike McClimans, Sr. Director, Flash Product…
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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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Curvature Enters EMEA Market With New Enterprise-Class SAS HDDs
Curvature is probably an unknown name to you, it is to most, but they are a provider of IT infrastructure solutions and services. Now they’ve announced that they will be entering the hard disk drive (HDD) market with a new line of SAS drives suited for server systems in professional…
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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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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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Thecus Launches Two New SAS-Enabled Rackmount NAS
Thecus launched two new SAS-enabled Rackmount NAS servers called the N12910SAS and N16910SAS. The N12910SAS is a 12-bay unit while the N16910SAS is a 16-bay NAS and both offer massive scalability and fast speeds alike thanks to both the 12Gbps SAS interface and being 10 GbE ready. The N12910SAS and N16910SAS…
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QNAP Launches Enterprise-class TES-x85U NAS Series
QNAP released a new and powerful enterprise-class NAS series called the TES-x85U. The new series includes the 18-bay TES-1885U and the 30-bay TES-3085U. Both models are powered by a high-performance but energy-saving Intel Xeon D processor, and provides the choice of dual OS inside a single rackmount NAS. Users can…
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Toshiba’s Read-intensive 2TB and 4TB PX04SL SSDs Now Shipping
Enterprises need a whole different set of hardware than we consumers do and Toshiba has a lot to offer in this area and among the available enterprise products is a whole list of solid state drives optimized for different kind of workloads. The newest in this category is the very…
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SilverStone Releases Two New SFF-8643 SAS Cables
You might just have bought a new fancy SAS controller for your data systems or maybe even bought a motherboard with it onboard, but you’ll also need some quality cables to connect these controllers with the drives. SilverStone released two new cables for the SFF-8643 Internal Mini SAS connector. The first…
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