2 TB Enterprise Drives Are Here?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT on 14. Aug, 2009 | View Comments
That didn’t take long! Less than a month after Hitachi introduced their 2 TB enterprise disk drive, Xyratex has announced that they will offer the drive in their OEM storage systems. The A7K2000 is 7200 rpm 5-platter design with a 3 Mb/s SATA interface: Not exactly high-end, but backed by the reputable folks at Hitachi [...]
I’ll Have Two Platters of Sheer Storage Madness, Please!
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 06. Jan, 2009 | View Comments
The inexorable march of areal density continues with this week’s release of two breakthrough two-platter hard disk drives:
First up is Seagate, with their next-generation 3.5″ “7200.12″ drive family. Boasting 500 GB per platter, the drives are initially offered in 500 GB, 750 GB, and 1 TB versions, but we expect a 1.5 TB three-platter and [...]
Western Digital + Fujitsu = More Competition for Seagate and Hitachi
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 02. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
Western Digital may purchase Fujitsu’s hard disk drive development and manufacturing assets, getting closer to market-leader, Seagate, with greater manufacturing capacity and access to the laptop OEM market
Yes, FireWire is Faster Than USB
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Terabyte home on 30. Jul, 2008 | View Comments
This should not come as a shock to anyone, as it has been proven before, but let me take this moment to say that, yes, despite their rated speeds, 400-megabit FireWire S400 (aka IEEE 1394) is faster than 480-megabit USB 2.0.
While swapping out disk drives (first to upgrade the internal drive in my MacBook Pro [...]
Big Little Disks Are On The Way
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 16. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
The relentless march of hard drive capacity is about to reach its next cantonment as 500 GB 2.5″ drives begin to arrive this month. These little half-terabyte wonders will continue the downward pressure on price and challenge flash-based drives just as they stake their claim in the main stream of the market.
Custom Icons Keep Removable Drives Straight
Posted by Stephen in Personal, Terabyte home on 27. May, 2008 | View Comments
Update: I have created another page for custom drive icons in Mac OS X
If you’re like most people, you have accumulated a large number of removable USB storage devices over the years, from flash-based thumb drives to external hard disks. I have seven of these things sitting on my desk or in by laptop bag [...]
Seagate Going to China?
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 27. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
The stock market was alive with rumors that Seagate might be bought by an unnamed Chinese company, as reported in the New York Times, among others. This comes after a week of insider whispers about a possible tieup between Seagate and memory-makers, Micron or SanDisk, itself a Seagate spin-off. It seems that the [...]
Commercial SSDs Are Here?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 14. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
Anyone paying attention knows I’m not particular sanguine about the near-term prospects for solid-state disks (SSDs) and hybrid hard disk drives (H-HDDs) in the enterprise storage space, but I’m not foolish enough to discount them entirely. With that in mind, it’s worthwhile noting the debut of the first commercially-available retail(ish) SATA SSD from [...]
Water-Cooled Hard Drives
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 07. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
It seems that water-cooled storage isn’t just for IBM spinoffs anymore! NEC and Hitachi have unveiled a new water-cooled hard drive module for PCs (in Japan) to keep their drives nice and cool (and quiet, too!)
Don’t expect to see this tech widely used, though. It’s way too complex for mainstream application.
Once again, in [...]
Specialized Server/Enterprise Hard Drives
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 07. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
Continuing my overview of the specialized hard drive market, we move on to the world of enterprise hard disk drives. These are performance monsters, with nearly all falling above the 10,000 RPM line that defines “exotic” in the desktop space. They also have a wide variety of interfaces, including parallel and serial [...]
