Published under Category : Hard Disk Drives
The new 3TB Ironwolf ( ST3000VN006) has 2 platters and it will replace the older 3 platter part number ( ST3000VN008).
Having one less platter means that ST3000VN006 is lighter and has better engery efficiency ( even if only marginally ). Transfer rates of new part number are up from 180 MB/s of earlier one to 202 MB/s.
Akash Jain has worked with data storage since 1998. He writes about NAS, hard drives, tape, backup and other storage technologies at The Storage Guy. He is also the creator of TSG EasyDocker, an open-source project for making Docker applications easier to deploy on NAS systems.
