Tag Archives: WD

Green without the ‘gotcha’

October 30, 2009 – 2:26 pm

Reducing power consumption in the data center has  moved from a nice-to-have to a necessity.  No surprise that a ‘green’ drive sounds appealing for servers and storage systems.

Drive manufacturers have [....]

By Pete Steege | Posted in Green IT, Products, Uncategorized | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Labeling a hard drive “Enterprise” does not make it so

September 29, 2009 – 7:25 am

Fast hard drives are not always Enterprise drives, just as high capacity drives can be Enterprise drives under the right circumstances.

What makes a drive an Enterprise drive?

What some [....]

By Pete Steege | Posted in 10K/15K RPM, Products | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Constellation is the missing link for 2.5″ enterprise storage

July 28, 2009 – 9:41 am

Robin Harris talks about capacity growth in 2.5″ notebook drives, and wonders what it portends for the enterprise.  No doubt that 1 TB ‘mobile’ drives, available from Seagate later this quarter, are [....]

By Pete Steege | Posted in 7200 rpm, Products, SAS, Trends, sata | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

The fastest gaming drive alive: Barracuda 7200

July 15, 2009 – 2:02 pm

Artiom at TechWare labs has a simple hack that turbo-charges a Barracuda 7200 1.5 TB drive for crazy fast performance. 

While I don’t usually promote hacks,this was pretty interesting. It’s easy to [....]

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