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Seagate's Two Billion Hard Drive Shipments is an Industry First

Posted 03/12/2013 at 9:56am | by Paul Lilly

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No hard drive maker has shipped more HDDs than Seagate.

After 29 years in the business, Seagate on Tuesday announced it is the first first hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturer to ship two billion HDDs. What's especially remarkable about the feat is that half of those shipments came within just the last four years. Seagate credits the milestone to "explosive demand" in mobile, cloud infrastructures, social media, business applications, and from being in a position to serve a variety of consumer markets.

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Hitachi Ultrastar 7K4000 4TB Review

Posted 02/13/2013 at 12:57pm | by Josh Norem

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Hitachi Ultrastar 7K4000 4TB

The Hitachi Ultrastar 7K4000 4TB made its first appearance in this magazine back in September 2012, when a gaggle of them debuted in the Dream Machine. At the time, they were the only 7,200rpm 4TB drives available, so they fit right in among all the other expensive and hard-to-find components. Now that the dust has settled and the 7K4000 has some company, we decided to put it on the test bench to see how it fares against its only rival in the 4TB category.

Note: This review first appeared in the Holiday 2012 issue of the magazine.

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Western Digital RE 4TB Review

Posted 02/13/2013 at 12:40pm | by Josh Norem

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Western Digital RE 4TB

The WD RE 4TB drive is specifically meant to handle an enterprise workload, but don’t let that scare you off, as it includes a desktop-friendly SATA 6Gb/s interface. As long as you’re running Windows Vista or Windows 7, you should be able to format it into one partition somewhat easily, though you could use it as a boot drive if you’re insane. Its enterprise pedigree is evident not only in its RE branding but in its 1.2 million-hour MTBF, or mean time between failure. This means you should be using this drive at least until Apple Maps for iOS has caught up to Google Maps.

Note: This review appeared in the Holiday 2012 issue of the magazine.

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Hard Drive Market Braces for Double Digit Decline in 2013

Posted 02/04/2013 at 1:10pm | by Paul Lilly

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A number of factors will lead to declining hard drive shipments this year, IHS iSuppli says.

Facing stiff competition from tablets, smartphones, and solid state drives (SSDs), mechanical hard disk drive (HDD) shipments are expected to fall 12 percent this year, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. HDD revenue will drop at about the same clip, declining 11.8 percent to $32.7 billion in 2013, down from $37.1 billion in 2012, and remaining flat in 2014.

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HGST's 1.2TB Ultrastar C10K1200 is Highest Capacity 10K RPM Hard Drive

Posted 01/29/2013 at 11:31am | by Paul Lilly

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The enterprise-class Ultrastar C10K1200 sports a SAS 6Gbs interface.

Western Digital's HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) subsidiary today unveiled what it claims is the world highest capacity 10,000 RPM hard drive, the Ultrastar C10K1200. As a capacity extension to HGST's C10K900, the newest model is another enterprise-class hard drive with a SAS 6Gbps interface and 64MB cache buffer, but with 1.2TB of storage served up at 10,000 RPM.

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Hard Drive Prices Continue Slow Decline

Posted 01/26/2013 at 6:07am | by Pulkit Chandna

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Current HDD prices in line with pre-recession levels

The hard drive industry was hit particularly hard by the 2011 floods in Thailand, which is the second biggest producer of hard drives behind China. The devastating deluge was accompanied by a sharp increase in hard drive prices, with the average selling price for HDDs shooting up 28 percent to reach $66 in Q4 2011 (Q2 FY2012). Although a return to pre-flood prices does not seem likely in the immediate future, things aren’t nearly as bad as they were an year ago.

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Seagate Launches 'Video 2.5 HDD' for 24/7 Video Applications

Posted 12/13/2012 at 9:21am | by Paul Lilly

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Seagate Video 2.5 HDD

A new hard drive for DVRs promises quiet operation and high reliability.

Seagate on Thursday announced its new Video 2.5 HDD, a 2.5-inch hard drive (as its name implies) designed specifically for around-the-clock video applications, such as digital video recorders (DVRs), set-top boxes (STBs), and surveillance applications. Building a reliable drive was Seagate's primary focus, and the company claims its new HDD has an annual failure rate of just 0.55.

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Toshiba Adds 4TB Drives to MG Series for Enterprise

Posted 11/29/2012 at 7:11am | by Paul Lilly

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Toshiba MG Series 4TB Hard Drive Thumbnail Toshiba this week announced that it's upping the storage ante for business customers by fleshing out its enterprise hard drive line with four new 4TB HDDs. The large capacity drives are part of Toshiba's MG Series and includes both SATA flavors -- MG03ACA400, MG03ACA400Y -- and SAS models -- MG03SCA400, MG03SCP400 -- all of which offer 4TB of capacity with varying feature-sets.

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OCZ Vector 256GB SSD Review

Posted 11/27/2012 at 3:26pm | by Josh Norem

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OCZ’s new flagship SSD kicks serious ass

The Vector is the first to use OCZ’s very own Barefoot 3 controller, and the company has certainly done its homework on this one.

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Windows 8 Home Server Guide

Posted 10/30/2012 at 12:03pm | by Tim Ferrill

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How to build a home server with Windows 8

Saying that Windows 8 is a major shift in strategy for Microsoft is pretty obvious at this point. Between the Metro interface, complete dismissal of the start menu, focus on touch screen devices, and myriad other changes; this is not the Windows of the Bill Gates era. One change which hasn’t received much discussion is the idea of Windows 8 being Microsoft’s next iteration for not only Windows 7, but for Windows Home Server.

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