Western Digital Red Plus; A Vaccine Against Shingles
As is tradition in this sector, when tests of Western Digital's Red series of NAS drives revealed that the line was a mix of SMR and CMR drives with no distinguishing marks…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jun 24, 2020 | General Tech | 4
As is tradition in this sector, when tests of Western Digital's Red series of NAS drives revealed that the line was a mix of SMR and CMR drives with no distinguishing marks…
Read Moreby PCPer Staff | May 1, 2020 | General Tech | 0
Join us this week as we discuss Intel's now official 10th Gen desktop lineup, check in on the hard drive SMR controversy, review a sleek new airflow case with ARGB, and more! 00:00:26…
Read Moreby Sebastian Peak | Apr 24, 2020 | Storage | 5
In the wake of media coverage from the likes of Ars Technica on the subject, Western Digital has provided an update on the SMR (shingled magnetic recording) controversy...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 22, 2020 | General Tech | 1
With the revelation that Western Digital's 2-6TB Red series of drives uses shingled drives, which causes unexpected and unwanted failures if one was to rebuild or resilver a NAS that used these…
Read Moreby PCPer Staff | Apr 17, 2020 | General Tech | 0
Join us this week as we talk about the new Ryzen 4000-based laptops, check out the Minecraft RTX Beta, review a high-end PLX-packing Z390 motherboard from ASRock, and take a first look…
Read MoreWestern Digital is expanding its data center hard drive offerings with the reveal of a 15TB model based on fourth generation HelioSeal and second generation Host Managed SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) technology.…
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Oct 12, 2017 | Storage | 17
Today Western Digital made a rather significant announcement in the field of HDD technology. We’ve previously talked about upcoming ways to increase the density of HDD storage, with the seeming vaporware
Read MoreWestern Digital is raising the enterprise hard drive stakes once again with the announcement of a 14 TB 3.5” hard drive. The HGST branded Ultrastar Hs14 uses fourth generation HelioSeal and second…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 9, 2017 | Storage | 25
If you have a huge collection of files you want backed up, Seagate's new external HDD is a decent alternative to deleting what you don't need anymore so it will fit on…
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Sep 9, 2014 | Shows and Expos, Storage | 3
It's the first day of IDF, so it's only natural that we see a bunch of non-IDF news start pouring out :). I'll kick them off with a few announcements from HGST.…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 8, 2013 | General Tech | 0
Enthusiasts are wholeheartedly adopting SSDs for their storage media of choice with HDDs relegated to long term storage of infrequently accessed storage. For SMB and enterprise it is not such an easy…
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