November 17, 2009 – 1:08 pm
Xbit Labs performed the mother of all SAS drive tests. Seventeen SAS 3.5″ drives run through the gauntlet on performance, capacity, power – you name it.
It’s like Enter the [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Products, SAS, reviews
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Also tagged Cheetah, Cheetah 15K.7, Enter The Dragon, enterprise drive, Fujitsu, hard drive, Hitachi, maxtor, review, SAS drive, Xbit Labs
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November 16, 2009 – 9:26 am
The history of the disk drive industry is a long series of relentless “firsts”. The latest Seagate Cheetah 15k drive stands out as a particularly impressive milestone.
Barefeats was [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in 10K/15K RPM, Products, reviews
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Also tagged $ per GB, 15K, 15k rpm, 15K.7, 600 GB, 600GB, Barefeats, best, capacity, Cheetah, gigabyte, Kryder's Law, Moore's Law, performance, price, review, SAS, sata, TweakTown
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October 30, 2009 – 11:07 am
It’s like HDTV.
First we had HD televisions without any content. Then we had some HD broadcasts, and some HD DVDs in the stores.
Then – inflection point! – all the pieces were there. [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in 10K/15K RPM, 7200 rpm, Products, Servers
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Also tagged 6Gb/s SAS, 6Gb/sec SAS, analogy, Blockbuster, constellation, Constellation ES, end-to-end, HDTV, inflection point, infrastructure, lsi, performance, SAS, savvio, Savvio 10K, Savvio 15K, Seagate, Supermicro
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September 23, 2009 – 2:22 pm
Seagate took a big step in the history of disk drives yesterday, although it may take a while for it to be seen as such.
Seagate announced the availability [....]
