In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese, senior manager for business development for hard disk drives (HDDs) for Toshiba Electronics Europe about the use cases most suited to HDDs.Kaese outlines the key performance characteristics, in particular in data transfer rate and input/output (I/O) operations per second, and why that makes them most suited to…
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Solid-state drive (SSD) prices per gigabyte (GB) dropped over the last two quarters – since the beginning of September 2024 – while SAS hard disk drive (HDD) prices increased over the same period. Flash drive prices (MLC, TLC and QLC) fell from an average of $0.085/GB to just under $0.079/GB. That’s a 7% decrease. At…
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Number three in the hard drive maker’s league, Toshiba, has announced products of 24TB and 28TB. These are the 24TB MG11, which is conventional magnetic recording (CMR) HDD technology, and the 28TB MA11, which uses shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology. Seagate was the first to market around a year ago with similar drives, the CMR…
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By Published: 20 May 2024 12:22 Toshiba has demoed 32TB (terabyte) and 31TB hard disk drives (HDD) that use heat- and microwave-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR and MAMR) plus shingled drive tracks to boost capacity over existing products by more than 40%. Currently, Toshiba’s largest capacity drive is a 22TB non-shingled MAMR model. Hard drive manufacturer…
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SK hynix is one of the few vertically integrated manufacturers in the flash-based storage market (along with Samsung, Micron / Crucial, Western Digital, and Kioxia). The company is well-established in the OEM market. A few years back, they also started exploring direct end-user products. Internal SSDs (starting with the Gold S31 and Gold P31) were…
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While desktop PC power supplies receive the bulk of enthusiasts’ attention for good reasons – not the least of which being the vast selection of options that comes from being a standardized part – power supplies as a whole aren’t just a concern for big PCs. With the majority of PC sales having flipped to…
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Lexar has a long history of serving the flash-based consumer storage market in the form of SSDs, memory cards, and USB flash drives. After having started out as a Micron brand, the company was acquired in 2017 by Longsys which has diversified its product lineup with regular introduction of new products. Recently, the company announced…
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In our series of Hard Disk Drive guides, here’s the latest update to our list of recommended HDDs. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the time of writing. Best Internal Hard Drives: Holiday 2023 Data storage requirements have kept increasing over the last several years. SSDs have taken over the…
Once the domain of external, bus-powered hard drives, these days the market for external storage has been almost completely consumed by portable SSDs. Rapid technological advancements in NAND flash technology (including the advent of 3D NAND) has allowed their capacity to eclipse 2.5-inch HDDs, all the while multiple improvements in host interface speeds (such as…
Samsung’s portable SSD lineup has enjoyed significant market success since the launch of the T1 back in 2015. Despite the release of the Thunderbolt-capable X5 PSSD in 2018, the company has been focusing primarily on the mainstream market with its T series drives. The first set of PSSDs from Samsung incorporated a SATA SSD behind…
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