Hard Disk Drives

The new 3TB Ironwolf ( ST3000VN006) has 2 platters and it will replace the older 3 platter part number ( ST3000VN008). Having one less platter means that ST3000VN006 is lighter and has better engery efficiency ( even if only marginally ).  Transfer rates of new part...

Updated 2023 : Now the ST4000VN008 has completely been phased out and is not available in channel in UAE TL; DR: ST4000VN006 is the newer model with higher cache, higher transfer rate and lower RPM. Both the drives are CMR. What has changed u...

WD has introduced another part number for 6TB Purple. We already had WD60PURZ and WD62PURZ and now there is WD63PURZFirst of all , it is a CMR drive like WD60PURZ and WD62PURZ. The WD63PURZ has the largest cache (256 MB). The power consumption is lower on the WD63PU...

RAID 1 is easy to understand. 2 hard drives mirrored to each other. Call it cloning, bit-for-bit copy, exact copy or mirroring, it is easy to visualise. But if you try to apply the same analogy to, say, RAID 5, it defies logic. We have been asked this question so ma...

WD Ultrastar HC560- 20TB drives are available now, not long after Seagate introduced its 20TB drives.Just like the Ultrastar 18TB, these are 9 platter drives. WD was able to increase the data storage on 9 platters to 20TB without resorting to SMR, but rather with using...

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