Hard Disk Drives

TLDR ; Seagate's new line of Ironwolf Pro drives has higher annual utilization, higher MTBF and supports an unlimited number of drive bays. It was the Iron...

It was almost a year ago when Seagate unveiled the specifications for the Mach.2 drive and planned to launch only SAS drives that would present themselves to the host as 2 LUNs. Since SATA 's specifications do not allow for multiple LUNs, there was no plan to bring a SATA...

TL; DR: ST3000VN006 has higher cache, higher transfer rate and lower RPM. Both ST3000VN006 and ST3000VN007 are CMR . Seagate announced the introduction of a new model on 3TB Ironwolf - ST3000VN006, replaicing the old ST3000VN007. The new model...

  Seagate announced the launch of its 20TB Ironwolf Pro on December 2. They are the fir...

How is the old ST4000VX007 part number different from the new ST4000VX013

7E8 had 8TB as its highest capacity. For 10TB, of course, there was the X10 platform. Now there is the 10TB capacity also on X10 and 7E10

With the introduction of the X18 platform, Seagate introduced a new part number for 16TB Exos drives - ST16000NM000J. It's not much different than the X16 ST16000NM001G

How is the old ST4000VX007 part number different from the new ST4000VX013

Seagate mach.2 drive double up the transfer performance, thanks to 2 read/write heads.

While only 512 native drives were available in low capacity, now there are 512 emulated drives too. For the application, both 512n and 512e appear same, so there is little difference.