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What Is The Secret To Efficient Hard Disk Drives?

August 25, 2009 By Stephen 3 Comments

Hard disk drives, like the engines in our cars, have been massively upgraded over the last two decades. Although massive IOPS and horsepower get all the headlines, energy-efficient designs deserve a look as well. Manufacturers have recently introduced some new tricks to coax out a little more performance and capacity from a lot less energy, and we are going to examine three … [Read more...] about What Is The Secret To Efficient Hard Disk Drives?

I’ll Have Two Platters of Sheer Storage Madness, Please!

January 6, 2009 By Stephen Leave a Comment

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 perhaps a 2.0 TB 4-platter version … [Read more...] about I’ll Have Two Platters of Sheer Storage Madness, Please!

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