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In an unexpected announcement during their quarterly earnings call this week, Western Digital revealed that it has begun sampling an upcoming 32TB hard drive. The nearline HDD is aimed at hyperscalers, and relies on a combination of Westen Digital's EAMR technology, as well as shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology to hit their highest capacity figures to date. Western Digital's 32TB HDD uses all of the company's most advanced technologies. Besides energy-assisted magnetic recording (EAMR/ePMR 2 to be more precise) technology, WD is also leveraging triple-stage actuators for better positioning of heads and two-dimensional (TDMR) read heads, OptiNAND for extra performance and reliability, distributed sector (DSEC) technology and a proprietary error correcting code (ECC) technology. And, most importantly, UltraSMR technology to provide additional capacity. "We are shipping...
Seagate Announces Exos X14: a Helium-Filled 14 TB PMR HDD
Seagate this week formally introduced its first hard drive with 14 TB capacity aimed at cloud datacenters that does not use shingled magnetic recording. The new Exos X14 HDDs...
10 by Anton Shilov on 3/21/2018
Seagate Launches Portable Storage Solutions at CES 2018
LAS VEGAS, NV — Seagate introduced a number of portable storage solutions at CES 2018. We were provided details of the LaCie DJI Copilot, the China-only JoyDrive, LaCie Rugged...
4 by Ganesh T S on 1/8/2018
Seagate’s Multi Actuator Technology to Address HDD IOPS Woes
Seagate introduced its new Multi-Actuator Technology (MAT) for hard drives earlier this month. It promises to increase hard drive performance by using two or more sets of actuator arms...
88 by Anton Shilov on 12/29/2017
Toshiba Commercializes SDK’s 9th Gen PMR, Tech Enables 14 TB PMR HDDs in 2018
Toshiba recently started to ship its single-platter 1 TB 2.5”/7 mm hard drives in the HDD market for notebooks. The drive is based on Showa Denko K.K.’s (SDK) 9th...
9 by Anton Shilov on 11/20/2017
Seagate BarraCuda Pro 12TB HDD Review
Data storage requirements have seen an exponential increase over the last several years. Both cloud and local storage requirements continue to be served by hard drives where workloads are...
62 by Ganesh T S on 11/15/2017
Seagate Launches SkyHawk AI HDDs for Intelligent NVRs
Seagate has released a new family of hard drives for intelligent network video recorders (NVRs) with 'AI capabilities'. The new Skyhawk AI HDDs are built to simultaneously record footage...
9 by Anton Shilov on 11/1/2017
Seagate Ships Consumer-Focused 12TB Helium Drives
Seagate is launching a trio of 12TB hard drives today with a focus on the consumer market. The 3.5” drives build upon the 'PMR platters in a helium-filled enclosure'...
14 by Ganesh T S on 10/5/2017
Toshiba Signs Deal To Sell Memory Business
After being approved by the board of directors last week, Toshiba's deal to sell their memory business to a consortium led by Bain Capital has been signed and will...
11 by Billy Tallis on 9/28/2017
Toshiba To Proceed With Sale Of Memory Business To Consortium
The latest and possibly final round of bidding for Toshiba's memory business concluded today with Toshiba's board selecting a consortium led by private equity firm Bain Capital as the...
12 by Billy Tallis on 9/20/2017
Seagate Demos New SSD Features And Prototypes At FMS
In spite of a fire that closed the exhibition floor last week at Flash Memory Summit, Seagate managed to set up several live demos and display their latest SSDs...
7 by Billy Tallis on 8/15/2017
Seagate Refreshes Enterprise SSDs With 3D NAND
At Flash Memory Summit this week, Seagate is showing off their latest enterprise SSDs and previewing upcoming developments. Seagate is also introducing a new branding strategy to unify their...
4 by Billy Tallis on 8/8/2017
Seagate Launches The 4TB Game Drive For Xbox Game Pass Special Edition
Seagate has been partnering with Microsoft to supply official accessories for the Xbox console for a couple of generations now, and we took a look at one back in...
3 by Brett Howse on 6/1/2017
Seagate Ships 35th Millionth SMR HDD, Confirms HAMR-Based Drives in Late 2018
Seagate last week made two rather important announcements regarding its current and upcoming hard drives. First, the company said that it had shipped 35 million HDDs based on shingled...
19 by Anton Shilov on 5/3/2017
LaCie Announces 2big Dock: 2-Bay TB3 DAS with Card Reader, USB-A and DisplayPort
LaCie this week has taken the wraps off of the latest member of their family of DAS devices, the 2big Dock. The newly revealed dock is their first Thunderbolt...
12 by Anton Shilov on 4/27/2017
Seagate Announces Enterprise Capacity 12 TB HDD: 2nd-Gen Helium-Filled Hard Drives
Seagate has introduced its second-generation of helium-filled HDDs. These drives will be aimed at capacity-demanding enterprise and cloud applications, and the new drives store up to 12 TB of...
21 by Anton Shilov on 3/16/2017
Seagate Confirms Plans for 12 TB HDD in Near Future, 16 TB HDD Due in 2018
The CEO of Seagate has confirmed plans to release new nearline harddrives with 12 TB capacity in the coming months, and HDDs with 16 TB capacity over the course...
31 by Anton Shilov on 1/30/2017
Seagate Launches 1 TB and 2 TB Enterprise Capacity 3.5-inch HDDs
Seagate has quietly added two enterprise-grade HDDs to its Enterprise Capacity lineup of hard drives. While the 'Enterprise' name has recently implied high-density products, the new 3.5” drives only...
26 by Anton Shilov on 1/19/2017
Seagate to Shut Down One of Its Largest HDD Assembly Plants
As a part of its cost-cutting efforts, Seagate has decided to shut down its HDD manufacturing plant in Suzhou, China. The factory is one of the company’s largest production...
44 by Anton Shilov on 1/13/2017
Synology, Seagate, and Amcrest's 2016 Surveillance Bundle Capsule Review
Recent technological advancements have led to a number of cost-effective video surveillance solutions. IP cameras (devices that can capture and stream video over an IP network while keeping latency...
8 by Ganesh T S on 12/22/2016
Seagate Announces Duet: An Amazon Cloud-Syncing Portable HDD for $99.99
Seagate this week has continued to introduce special-purpose storage devices tailored for select applications: the company is launching its Duet external hard drive that automatically downloads and uploads content...
12 by Anton Shilov on 12/2/2016
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