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WD Purple 6TB Surveillance Hard Drive RAID Review
Introduction We have already had the pleasure to see how WD’s 6TB Purple surveillance hard disk performed in our previous review, but WD was kind enough to provide us with two of these drives and thereby allowing us to test them in a RAID environment too. A surveillance setup will…
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Seagate Announces Three New 8TB Hard Disk Drives
Seagate announced that not one but three new 8TB hard disk drives have been added to their portfolio. The three new drives are from the Seagate Enterprise Capacity, Seagate Enterprise NAS, and Seagate Kinetic HDD series and all got the 8TB upgrade. While these aren’t the first 8TB drives, they are…
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Seagate Creates Highest Capacity 2.5″ 7mm HDD
The mechanical hard drive is far from dead despite the face solid state and hybrids drives march forward and intend to conquer the market. There are still a lot of improvements that can be done on the mechanical siblings and Seagate proved that again by creating the highest density 2.5-inch HDD…
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Seagate Increases The External Seven Drive’s Capacity by 50%
Seagate celebrated their 35th Birthday with the beautiful Seven drive back in January at CES in Las Vegas and they’ve now released a new version that adds 50% more capacity to the drive. The first version came with 500GB capacity, but now the gorgeous 7mm thick portable USB 3.0 Seven…
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HGST Launched the 10TB Ultrastar Archive Ha10 HDD
HGST has set a new standard for mechanical hard drives with their helium filled drives and the latest one based on that technology have just been launched. The new HGST Ultrastar Archive HA10. brings 10TB of storage capacity specially designed for Active Archive applications. This is the third drive based…
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HGST Deskstar NAS 6TB 7200RPM Hard Disk Drive Review
Introduction There aren’t that many hard disk drives on the market so far that are specifically designed for use in NAS environments, but there are a few. Today I’m taking a closer look at the HGST’s Deskstar NAS 6TB HDD that is just such a drive and will put it…
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Buffalo Announced new MiniStation Extreme NFC Portable Hard Drive
Data security is more important than ever, especially for companies who work with a lot of personal details about their customers. Buffalo announced a new external hard drive that doesn’t just come with great physical resistance, it also packs the latest in digital protection. Buffalo’s new portable hard drive is called…
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Western Digital Introduced the Purple NV 4TB and 6TB NVR HDDs
Western Digital introduced the new WD Purple NV hard disk, a purpose-built line of 3.5-inch high-capacity drives for the greater demands of scalable network video recorder (NVR) surveillance systems. The new Purple NV drives will be available as 4 TB and 6 TB hard drives to suit the ever growing…
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Toshiba Presents Two New 3TB Portable Hard Drives
Toshiba announced two new 3TB portable hard drives where one is an addition to the Canvio Basics line and the other is the brand new Canvio Connect II portable hard drive. Both new hard drives take advantage of the new 3TB 2.5″ Toshiba HDDs that are built with four 750MB platters. The…
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Toshiba Announces First 3TB 2.5-Inch HDD
Toshiba announced the launch of a 3TB 2.5-inch hard disk drive (MQ03ABB300), the industry’s largest capacity to date in this form factor. Utilizing perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology, the new drive achieves 750GB per on each of the 4 platters. A drive perfect for situations where a lot of storage…
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ADATA Launches its Stylish HV611 USB 3.0 External Hard Drive
ADATA has just announced the launch of its latest portable HDD solution featuring the latest USB technology, the HV611 USB 3.0 External Hard Drive, coming with simplistic design, vivid colours and unique puzzle patterns, as well as a compact size. The company states that the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface clearly…
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New Mini-ITX Configurations Announced By OriginPC and CyberpowerPC
OriginPC was one of the first manufacturers to offer the monstrous Titan Z card in their custom-build PCs. However, the chassis availability capable of housing the graphics card was limited, until now that is. The manufacturer announced that NVIDIA’s Titan Z can now fit in some if its select mini-ATX…
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Core X5 Series PC Cases Announced By Fractal Design
Fractal Design has introduced its new series of PC Cases, the Core X5, distinguishable by its intuitive and easy-to-access interior, while also providing a removable HDD cage and tray system, supporting up to four 3.5″ or 2.5″ disk drives.The PC case series is made up of four different models, the…
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Christofle Designed “Sphére” Hard Drive Released By LaCie
LaCie has released a strange-looking Hard Drive, in the shape of a Sphere. It is designed by Christofle, the hard drive is enclosed in a spherical case of silver-plated steel. The product has a USB 3.0 connection interface and comes in 1TB of storage capacity, a perfect place for all…
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Western Digital To Warn Of OS X Mavericks Data Loss
Western Digital is warning customers of an unfortunate interaction between its storage management software and Apple’s latest OS X release, 10.9 ‘Mavericks,’ which can result in permanent data loss. The latest release reduces the heavy skeuomorphism, the use of fake ‘physical’ elements, such as paper textures and page turning animations,…
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