Storage
Seagate Technology has reportedly notified its customers abouts its plans to raise prices on new hard drive orders and for demands that exceed prior agreements, echoing a similar move by Western Digital, which increased its prices earlier this month. These changes come in response to a surge in demand for high-capacity HDDs and constraints in supply due to decreased production capabilities of both Seagate and Western Digital, reports TrendForce. According to industry insights reported by TechNews, the sector anticipates that the scarcity of high-capacity HDD products will persist throughout the current quarter and possibly extend over the entire year. It is forecasted that HDD prices will rise by 5% to 10% in Q2 2024 alone and could increase further as a reault of the ongoing...
Western Digital WD1600AAJS: 160GB Served on Single Platter
We take a look at the latest Western Digital Caviar SE series featuring 160GB per-platter technology in the ultra competitive budget sector.
19 by Gary Key on 2/5/2007Western Digital and Seagate: 320GB Grudge Match
We take a look at the latest Western Digital SE16 and Seagate 7200.10 320GB hard drives and determine a winner in the mid-range desktop performance sector.
21 by Gary Key on 7/27/2006Western Digital WD2500YD: Enterprise on the Desktop
Our first look at the Western Digital RE16 series featuring the WD2500YD 250GB drive and how it performs against its RE2 siblings.
12 by Gary Key on 6/24/2006Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB: Size Does Matter
Our first look at Seagate's new Barracuda 7200.10 desktop series featuring perpendicular recording technology and industry leading capacities.
45 by Gary Key on 5/18/2006Infrant Technologies’ ReadyNAS NV: Enterprise Features, Desktop Footprint
With personal storage becoming even more important nowadays, many smaller companies are producing solutions for the mainstream home and small office user to archive their most precious data. Take...
14 by Purav Sanghani on 3/17/2006Western Digital WD1500ADFD: King Raptor
Our first look at Western Digital's third-generation Raptor.
52 by Gary Key on 2/8/2006Ricoh EncryptEase: CD-R Password Protection Made Easy
Ricoh's EncryptEase media allows password protection and compression on a normal 650MB CD-R with no extra software. Take a look at how it works.
19 by Purav Sanghani on 2/7/2006Seagate 7200.9 160GB: The Highest Platter Density to Date!
Before Seagate jumps in to manufacturing drives using the perpendicular magnetic recording, it takes a stab at boosting current platter densities. Take a look at their 7200.9 model with...
24 by Purav Sanghani on 1/31/2006Flash Media: 1GB CompactFlash Roundup
With digital photography, personal audio, and personal digital assistants in full force these days, we look at one type of flash media to accompany these devices for added storage...
24 by Purav Sanghani on 12/23/2005Hitachi vs. Western Digital vs. Seagate: A Battle of the Mammoths
We promised a 3-way comparison between Hitachi’s 500GB 7K500, Western Digital’s 400GB WD4000YR, and Seagate’s 7200.9 500GB drive and we keep to our promises. Take a look at how...
46 by Purav Sanghani on 12/2/2005AXIOMTEK ExBoot 80GB External Storage
AXIOMTEK, a 15-year-old storage solution company, takes on the desktop market of storage devices with their ExBoot line of 3.5" external hard drives.
7 by Purav Sanghani on 11/10/2005Sony DRU-810A: New Chipset, New Performance
After looking at the last few Sony drives at our labs, the above average performance of the DRU-810A was pleasantly unexpected!
18 by Purav Sanghani on 10/28/2005Seagate 7200.9 500GB: Mouthwatering Benchmarks
After the October 10, 2005 announcement of the new 7200.9 line from Seagate, we have our hands on the 500GB SATA model and ran it through our desktop drive benchmarks.
46 by Purav Sanghani on 10/24/2005Introducing Seagate's 7200.9: The New Generation
Seagate officially introduces the long awaited 7200.9 series of hard disk drives, including their 500GB competition to Hitachi. Take a peek at Seagate's latest offerings!
72 by Purav Sanghani on 10/10/2005Seagate 120GB External Storage
Seagate has a line of external drives meant for personal desktop uses. We take the 120GB version of their storage-only device and run it through our external storage tests.
14 by Purav Sanghani on 9/29/2005Pioneer DVR-110D: Dual Layer Double Time!
Pioneer keeps up with the DVDR market with the DVR-110D and its updated dual layer write speeds.
20 by Purav Sanghani on 9/15/2005AcomData E5 320GB External Desktop Storage: Slap on another
Why should we limit ourselves to internal storage devices when the same high capacities can be had in a portable case? AcomData has squeezed 320GB of hard disk space...
19 by Purav Sanghani on 8/27/2005Plextor PX-740A
We take a look at the inner workings and performance of Plextor's newest dual layer DVD writer.
30 by Purav Sanghani on 8/2/2005Gigabyte's i-RAM: Affordable Solid State Storage
After seeing it at Computex, we were intrigued. And now, we've had a week to play with Gigabyte's new i-RAM. How does 4GB of solid state storage fare...
134 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/25/2005High Density Storage Technologies; Pixie Dust and Perpendicular Recording
With current hard disk capacities inching toward their ceiling, R&D teams from the big name manufacturers have come up with a new technologies to write data to the platter...
13 by Purav Sanghani & Kristopher Kubicki on 7/19/2005
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