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Dropbox was among the first large cloud service providers (CSPs) providers to deploy hard drives that use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) to increase storage density of its datacenters. As the company is looking forward to future technology and plans to be one of the first adopters of HDDs featuring heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), it is already planning for how HAMR drives will affect its datacenters and how it should prepare for their deployment. In a surprising candid blog post, Dropbox shared some thoughts and experiences ahead of the deployment of HDDs of based on HAMR technology, which will offer capacities starting from 30TB and spanning all the way to 100TB and higher in the future. In a bid to ensure predictable performance of these...
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
Seagate Revives Maxtor Brand for External Storage
UPDATE 12/1 9AM: Seagate confirmed Thursday that it decided to revive the Maxtor brand in a bid to sell value products. In the coming months the company plans to...
36 by Anton Shilov on 12/1/2016
Seagate Introduces Backup Plus Portable 5 TB: The Largest Portable HDD to Date
Seagate this week formally introduced its Backup Plus Plus Portable Drive external HDD with a 5 TB capacity that is based on the recently launched top-of-the-range BarraCuda 2.5” drive...
10 by Anton Shilov on 11/16/2016
LaCie Announces Bolt3: 2 TB External SSD at 2.8 GBps over Thunderbolt 3
LaCie this week has introduced its first external solid-state storage solution using Thunderbolt. The Bolt3 uses two M.2 SSDs in RAID 0 mode to enable 2 TB of storage...
21 by Anton Shilov on 11/2/2016
Seagate Introduces Game Drive SSD for Xbox (360 and One): 512 GB SSD for $199
Seagate has announced its new Game Drive for Xbox SSD. While the name suggests it is primarily for the original Xbox, this drive is focused for the Xbox One...
33 by Anton Shilov on 11/1/2016
LaCie Launches 6big and 12big: Up to 60/120 TB External Storage with Thunderbolt 3
LaCie this week has introduced two new workstation-grade external storage solutions using Thunderbolt 3 with the focus on big on-the-desk data storage. The 6big and 12big devices pack in...
41 by Anton Shilov on 11/1/2016
Seagate Introduces New Generation of Enterprise Performance 15K HDDs with NAND Caching
Seagate on Tuesday announced its new generation of hard drives with 15K spindle speed and up to 900 GB capacity. The new HDDs use NAND caching to boost response...
11 by Anton Shilov on 10/26/2016
Seagate Launches FireCuda SSHDs: Up to 2 TB, SMR, 8 GB of NAND
Seagate has officially introduced its fifth-generation solid-state hybrid drives (SSHDs) under the FireCuda brand name. They have a thinner form-factor compared to previous-gen solutions. The drives use Seagate’s 1...
47 by Anton Shilov on 10/21/2016
Seagate Introduces BarraCuda 2.5” HDDs with Up to 5 TB Capacity
Seagate has formally introduced a new family of hard drives in the 2.5” form-factor. It is designed for laptops as well as external storage solutions. The new BarraCuda HDDs...
30 by Anton Shilov on 10/21/2016
Seagate Introduces 10GB/s PCIe SSD And 60TB SAS SSD
Seagate is looking to break records with two enterprise SSDs they're showing off at Flash Memory Summit this week. The first drive is one that's been seen before: the...
38 by Billy Tallis on 8/9/2016
Seagate Re-Enters Enterprise SATA SSD Market with Nytro XF1230
It's hard for any new SATA SSD to be big news. Aside from instances where new NAND flash enables higher capacities or a big price drop, almost everything we...
13 by Billy Tallis on 8/4/2016
Seagate Expands Nytro Enterprise SSD Family with 2TB M.2 XM1440
As Flash Memory Summit 2016 approaches, many major players in the SSD market are starting to announce new products. A year after introducing the Nytro XM1440 enterprise M.2 PCIe...
9 by Billy Tallis on 7/26/2016
Seagate BarraCuda Pro 10TB Helium HDD Capsule Review
Seagate has introduced a trio of 10TB hard drive models today, as part of the launch of their new Guardian series. There are three main parts to the series...
69 by Ganesh T S on 7/19/2016
Seagate's New 'Guardian Series' Portfolio Brings 10TB Helium HDDs to Consumers
Our recent interview with Seagate's CTO, Mark Re, gave us an idea about of the future of the hard drive market. As late as Q1 2016, Seagate had considered...
18 by Ganesh T S on 7/19/2016
Seagate to Lay Off Over 8,000 to Lower Costs
It is not a secret that total available market of hard drives significantly shrank in the recent years due to the slowing sales of PCs and popularization of SSDs...
41 by Anton Shilov on 7/14/2016
The Evolution of HDDs in the Near Future: Speaking with Seagate CTO, Mark Re
In the recent months, Seagate has made several significant announcements regarding the future of HDD technology and unveiled a number of important products. In particular, late last year the...
91 by Anton Shilov on 7/6/2016
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