Even as we transition more and more to speedy SSDs, developments are still occurring in HDD land. Having explored the limits of what is practical with Helium filled Shingled ...
August 22, 2015 at 12:30 pm by Samuel Wan
HGST blew people away last year when they presented their amazing PCM PCIe SSD that could deliver a record-breaking three million IOPS. At this years Flash Summit in Santa ...
August 11, 2015 at 12:00 pm by Bohs Hansen
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 ...
June 11, 2015 at 1:55 am by Bohs Hansen
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 ...
June 9, 2015 at 8:58 am by Bohs Hansen
If you ever wondered what one would use those multi-socket motherboards with an almost endless amount of CPU cores and support for TBs of RAM for, then the short answer is ...
May 13, 2015 at 11:58 pm by Bohs Hansen
HGST, that is a part of Western Digital, announced that they’re now shipping their newest and the industry’s highest-performing NVMe compliant SSDs, the Ultrastar ...
April 13, 2015 at 11:26 am by Bohs Hansen
Thecus is the latest of companies to support the amazing HGST Ultrastar He8 Helium filled hard disk drives. By incorporating these new drives with Thecus NAS, users will be ...
March 6, 2015 at 12:58 am by Bohs Hansen
It’s been about six month since we last reported on the HGST 10TB drives as they were introduced, and now it looks like they’re finally about to hit the market. ...
February 23, 2015 at 1:58 pm by Bohs Hansen
Just because a hard disk exists doesn’t mean it is ideal to be used in every system, or there might just be a few tweaks that need to be made in order to ensure that ...
February 11, 2015 at 11:58 am by Bohs Hansen
Cloud storage provider Backblaze, in its 2014 ‘Hard Drive Annual Failure Rate’ graph, reports that the 3TB Seagate Barracuda drives it used for its ...
January 22, 2015 at 9:58 am by Ashley Allen
G-Technology probably isn’t a company you’ve heard a lot from, but they have enough knowledge in their backs being a part of HGST (WD). They’ve announced ...
January 9, 2015 at 7:55 pm by Bohs Hansen
Eurocom builds some serious mobile computing machines that really don’t lack anything in comparison with their stationary companions, you might remember the recently ...
December 31, 2014 at 8:58 pm by Bohs Hansen
On March 17, 2013 we reported that WD was investing a huge sum of money into the SSD sector, in fact they invested $51 Million to an Enterprise SSD manufacturer Skyera whose ...
December 17, 2014 at 2:58 pm by Bohs Hansen
I still remember buying 250MB HDDs, 800MB HDDs and then getting into the GBs was like a dream come true… but now 8TB? Wow. HGST, a division of Western Digital, is now ...
November 11, 2014 at 4:42 am by Henry Reeve
Western Digital’s HGST subsidiary has just announced their new 8TB and 10TB hard drives and no, that second one isn’t a typo. The new drives are part of their ...
September 10, 2014 at 10:08 am by Peter Donnell
