HDDs
UPDATE 5/17, 6 PM: Western Digital has confirmed that the new 2.5-inch T GB HDDs uses 6 SMR platters The vast majority of laptops nowadays use solid-state drives, which is why the development of new, higher-capacity 2.5-inch hard drives has all but come to a halt. Or rather, it almost has. It seems that the 2.5-inch form factor has a bit more life left in it after all, as today Western Digital has released a slate of new external storage products based on a new, high-capacity 6 TB 2.5-inch hard drive. WD's new 6 TB spinner is being used to offer upgraded versions of the company's My Passport, Black P10, and and G-DRIVE ArmorATD portable storage products. Notably, however, WD isn't selling the bare 2.5-inch drive...
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
Promise Launches Pegasus3 External Storage via TB3: Up to 48 TB, 1.6 GBps
Promise has introduced three new storage systems using the Thunderbolt 3 interface and aiming users of the recently introduced Apple MacBook Pro notebooks. The new Pegasus3 Symply Editions can...
7 by Anton Shilov on 11/16/2016
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 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
Western Digital Adds Helium-Filled WD Gold 10 TB HDD to Lineup
Western Digital has this week introduced its new 10TB datacenter-class helium-filled WD Gold hard drive. This drive, according to WD, boasts higher performance compared to its predecessor combined with...
34 by Anton Shilov on 8/4/2016
G-Technology Introduces G-Drive and G-RAID External HDDs up to 20 TB
G-Technology this week introduced several new models of its G-Drive and G-RAID products with Thunderbolt 1, USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt 2 soltions. These are direct attached storage (DAS) devices...
16 by Anton Shilov on 7/22/2016
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
Western Digital Expands My Passport External USB 3.0 Drives To 4 TB
Western Digital last week introduced several new members to its My Passport family of external hard drives. The new portable external HDDs can store up to 4 TB of...
18 by Anton Shilov on 7/6/2016
Western Digital’s Acquisition of SanDisk Officially Closes
Western Digital announced on Tuesday that the Chinese authorities have approved its acquisition of SanDisk. The regulatory approval from China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) in connection with the planned...
18 by Anton Shilov on 5/16/2016
Market Views: HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low
Leading industry watchers like IDC and Gartner early this year predicted that the first quarter of 2016 would not be good for the PC industry and various companies agreed...
116 by Anton Shilov on 5/12/2016
Seagate Begins Volume Shipments of Helium-Filled HDDs, Reveals Their Final Specs
Seagate has started volume shipments of its first helium-filled hard drives. They were announced earlier this year. The new HDDs are available to all interested parties, which means that...
65 by Anton Shilov on 4/28/2016
Western Digital Introduces WD Gold HDDs for Datacenters
Western Digital has announced a new family of hard drives specifically for data centers. The new WD Gold HDDs will feature multiple technologies that the company uses to build...
30 by Anton Shilov on 4/19/2016
Market Views: Hard Drive Shipments Drop by Nearly 17% in 2015
Today we're launching a new feature on the AnandTech Pipeline: Quarterly HDD shipments reports. Here we'll examine HDD sales and analyze what's behind them. Since some numbers are estimates...
37 by Anton Shilov on 3/2/2016
Facebook
Twitter
RSS
