Hard Disk Drives

Seagate’s Exos keep growing both in capacity and in features. New models are introduced almost every quarter, while many older ones are refreshed or made end-of-life (EOL) status. Getting a list of current Exos models is easy. What’s harder is knowing which part number existed...

TLDR ; Seagate's new line of Ironwolf Pro drives has higher annual utilization, higher MTBF and supports an unlimited number of drive bays. It was the Ironwolf Pro series that started with the free data recovery service (which was later extended to Ironwolf as well). This quar...

It was almost a year ago when Seagate unveiled the specifications for the Mach.2 drive and planned to launch only SAS drives that would present themselves to the host as 2 LUNs. Since SATA 's specifications do not allow for multiple LUNs, there was no plan to bring a SATA dr...

TL; DR: ST3000VN006 has higher cache, higher transfer rate and lower RPM. Both ST3000VN006 and ST3000VN007 are CMR . Seagate announced the introduction of a new model on 3TB Ironwolf - ST3000VN006, replaicing the old ST3000VN007. The new model ST3000VN006 is lighter in weight ...

  Seagate announced the launch of its 20TB Ironwolf Pro on December 2. They are the first vendor to announce the availability and specifications of these hard drives. As with the other Ironwolf Pro drives, this drive comes with a 5-year limited warranty with 3 years of data r...

How is the old ST4000VX007 part number different from the new ST4000VX013

7E8 had 8TB as its highest capacity. For 10TB, of course, there was the X10 platform. Now there is the 10TB capacity also on X10 and 7E10

With the introduction of the X18 platform, Seagate introduced a new part number for 16TB Exos drives - ST16000NM000J. It's not much different than the X16 ST16000NM001G

How is the old ST4000VX007 part number different from the new ST4000VX013

Seagate mach.2 drive double up the transfer performance, thanks to 2 read/write heads.

While only 512 native drives were available in low capacity, now there are 512 emulated drives too. For the application, both 512n and 512e appear same, so there is little difference.

Our pick of best hard drives for your NAS in 2021, and a few tips to help you select.

ST18000NM000J - 18 TB Exos is here.

Seagate was the first to market with its 16TB - A lead lost to WD recently when WD introduced 18TB capacity before Seagate. It may change this September.

What we know about the new SMR drives.

Capcity of the HDDs have been increasing thanks to Energy assisted recordings, and using multiple actuators can be a way to increase the read/write performance and IOPS.

If you wonder why every time you buy a hard drive of 10TB, which is reported as 9.1TB or a 250GB SSD is reported as 232GB in your OS you need to understand the difference between TB and TiB.