Enlarge (credit: Seagate) While NVMe SSDs focus on getting faster, good old spinning hard drives are intent on getting larger. Tom’s Hardware reports that hard drive manufacturer Seagate announced on a recent earnings call that it is shipping huge, 22TB hard drives to some of its customers. The company uses shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology […]
The key to Mach.2’s increased performance is a second set of actuator arms, which can be positioned independently from the first set. Essentially, this makes a Mach.2 “two drives in one chassis.” (credit: Seagate) Seagate has been working on dual-actuator hard drives—drives with two arms and read/write heads per platter—for several years. Its first production […]
Expand (charge: Seagate) Before this month, Seagate declared an 18TB entrance in its Ironwolf Expert lineup. Western Digital replied Wednesday dawn with 18TB variations of its Red Guru and Purple consumer-targeted lines. The brand newest 18TB Red Guru and Purple compels follow the business’s original 18TB CMR driveway, a Gold launched at mid-July. The two […]