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Seagate IronWolf Pro 20TB 3.5″ HDD Review
Seagate is one of the biggest names in the world of storage. They create everything from affordable storage for consumers, right up to the huge arrays that power many of the worlds largest servers and even supercomputers. While the HDD I’m looking at today is technically more on the consumer…
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Western Digital Debuts the 15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 SMR HDD
15TB Western Digital SMR Drive for Data Centers Last year, Western Digital released a massive 14TB SMR drive for data centers. Now they are improving upon that even further with the launch of the 15TB Ultrastar DC H620. SMR of course, stands for ‘Shingled Magnetic Recording‘. SMR overwrites a bit of…
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Toshiba Unveils MG07ACA 14TB CMR HDD for Enterprise
Toshiba is announcing the launch of their MG07ACA series drives up to 14TB in capacity. The company claims that these are the world’s first Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) HDD. It uses a 9-disk, helium-sealed design that is power efficient and perfect for cloud-scale storage providers. “We have raised the bar…
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QNAP Announces TVS-1282T3 Thunderbolt 3 NAS
QNAP just announced an impressive new NAS in every way, the new Thunderbolt 3 NAS TVS-1282T3. The new device comes with up to Intel i7 processors, 64GB memory, four Thunderbolt ports, and multiple 1 and 10 Gbps ports. “We are very excited to offer the pioneering Thunderbolt 3 NAS to…
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Western Digital Announces 10 TB WD Purple HDDs
Western Digital announced that they are upping the capacity of their surveillance drives with 25% and releasing the new 10TB version in their Purple series. The WD Purple HDDs are designed for NVR and DVR systems which increase in resolutions just as any other camera system. Beside the 25-percent capacity…
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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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LaCie d2 Thunderbolt 3 10TB Desktop HDD Review
Introduction Today I get to review an amazing looking storage drive with a connection option available for any system. In the testing area is LaCie’s newest d2 model, the d2 Thunderbolt 3 drive with 10TB capacity. Not only does it come with Thunderbolt 3 connections, it also features USB, USB…
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QNAP Introduces TS-1685 16-Bay Super NAS With PCIe and M.2
QNAP released what could very well be the most awesome NAS in desktop form factor. Not only is it packed with a powerful Xeon processor, it also comes with up to 128GB DDR4 memory and room for a total of 22 drives. Officially it’s only a 16-bay NAS, but it…
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Toshiba Reveals Its 6TB Internal and External Drives
Toshiba has announced a 6TB capacity version of its Canvio Desk 3.5″ External USB 3.0 Hard Drive and Desk 3.5″ Internal Serial ATA 3.0 Hard Drive series, both of which are designed to extend capacity of your storage either as an upgrade or extension. “Toshiba has been developing and manufacturing…
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Enermax EMK3104 Hybrid 2.5-inch Docking Station Review
Introduction There are many types of drive enclosures on the market; some are internal, some are external and some are hybrids. The Enermax EMK3104 Mobile Rack is a hybrid solution and a smart one at that. The enclosure can take 2.5-inch hard disk and solid state drives and convert them…
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Aerocool Launches DS 200 Midi Tower With Special Insulation and Built-In Fan Controller
Aerocool has launched a new addition to its Dead Silence chassis series, the DS 200, sporting a variety of features, such as having both side-panels equipped with special insulation mats in order to reduce the noise inside the PC. In addition to the latter, the DS 200 also features an…
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QNAP Turbo NAS Sytems to Support Latest Red Drives From Western Digital
Geared for the 1-5 bay NAS market, Western Digital’s Red line of drives have certainly made an impact on the performance of small NAS systems for home and small business users alike. Since their initial release however, we have seen their capacity grow and even more recently we have seen…
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Icy Dock FatCage MB155SP-B SATA Backplane Module Review
Introduction When it comes to drive enclosures, both of the internal and external flavour, there is, generally speaking, one name that always pops to mind and this is Icy Dock. For many years now they have been creating enclosures, mounts and backplanes in a whole heap of varieties – some…
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