Results tagged "Western Digital"
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Why Software-Defined Storage Is Good For Seagate
September 05, 2013 11:33 AM
Some vendors won't fare well if software-defined storage takes off, but disk drive specialists will reap benefits. Here's how.SSD Vendors: Which Will Win?
July 16, 2013 07:44 PM
As the SSD market consolidates, companies that run flash foundries and established storage vendors may have the edge.DIY Storage Part 3: Pricing Pitfalls
May 28, 2013 01:20 PM
In building my own SAN as a pilot project at work, I learned firsthand about how vendors can make it difficult to budget creatively. Here are some of the roadblocks I ran into (and workarounds to avoid them) when trying to reduce storage costs.False Disk Drive Failures Are a Real Problem
March 26, 2013 01:34 PM
New information shows disk drives report false failures with alarming frequency. False failures have real costs for data center operators. Here’s what the industry can do about it.Can Hybrid Drives Win the Notebook Market?
January 14, 2013 11:38 AM
Solid-state hard drives (SSHDs) offer the speed of all-flash drives and the capacity of traditional disk. But increased capacity and falling costs of SSDs may negate those advantages in the notebook market.Fill Your Drives With Helium: HGST Fits Seven Platters Into 3.5 Inches
September 21, 2012 11:00 AM
HGST has announced that it has put seven platters onto a 3.5-inch form factor, thanks in part to replacing the air in the drive with helium. Find out what this could mean.Thai Flooding Drives Disk Prices Up, Warranties Down
January 17, 2012 11:00 AM
The effects of fall's record-setting flooding in Thailand continue to reverberate throughout the storage industry. The flooding put several factories that made both completed disk drives for Seagate and Western Digital and components like platters, spindle motors and heads under several feet of water for weeks. The estimated production shortfall of 20 to 50 million drives in the fourth quarter has had a significant impact on the storage industry.Western Digital Buys Hitachi GST, And Then There Were Four
March 09, 2011 07:00 AM
Just as the sports-crazed among us have recovered from Super Bowl Sunday and are preparing for March Madness, Western Digital announced that it is buying Hitachi's Global Storage Technologies division, which will bring the hard drive market to a final four vendors a full month before the NCAA tournament does. The new Western Digital will be far and away the largest hard drive vendor, selling 49 percent of the world's hard drives.Western Digital Returns To Enterprise Drives
November 12, 2009 11:24 PM
It would be a stretch to say that Western Digital's announcement of their S25 line of SAS drives was a surprise. Ever since they released the VelociRaptor early last year, I've been waiting for someone over there to slap an SAS interface on the little sucker. Now that they have, and a 600MB/s one to boot, I got Tom McDorman, who runs WD's enterprise storage group, on the phone to explain how SAS drives from WD fit in the datacenter market. The conversation changed my views on the drive market and the evolution of storage in the datacenter.Dot Hill To Launch Trailblazing 24TB RAID Arrays In Compact 2U Footprint
July 08, 2009 04:43 PM
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