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Drive Study Shows Most Failures Occur in Under Three Years
A new report from Secure Data Recovery suggests that a potentially bad hard drive will fail in just under three years. This is most likely to occur with Hitachi and Seagate drives.
Japan Display Working on 4k Tablet Screen
Engadget reports that the coalition between Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi have announced that they have a fully functional 12.1-nch 4k TFT package.
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 Review: A 1 TB Notebook Drive At 7200 RPM
HGST's Travelstar 7K1000 is the first 1000 GB notebook drive we've tested with a 7200 RPM spindle speed. Is this hard disk a performance crown winner? We run our standard suite of benchmarks on it and compare the repository to 13 competitors.
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB Review: Big Capacity At 5900 RPM
First, Seagate renamed its Barracuda hard drive family to Desktop HDD.15. Then, it introduced the first model in the new line-up—the Desktop HDD.15 ST4000DM000. Does Seagate's first massive 4 TB desktop disk deliver the performance we want or disappoint?
HGST Hits 10-Nanometer Patterned-Bit Milestone
HGST's new discovery will double the bit density of today's disk drives by the end of the decade.
Build It Yourself: A Mini-ITX Gaming System For Just Over $500
Low-cost, low-power, small form factor PCs are popular right now. With Intel’s Ivy Bridge architecture available in the low-end Pentium family, you can now build a living room gaming PC with discrete graphics to beat any modern console for just over $500.
Western Digital's 4 TB WD4001FAEX Review: Back In Black
Western Digital has a new 4 TB flagship. Its WD4001FAEX is part of the company’s Black family of performance-oriented drives. Spinning at 7,200 RPM, it might seem at home in a high-end desktop, but our numbers suggest it might fare better in a server.
Four 2.5" Hard Drives From 500 GB To 1 TB, Benchmarked
Thanks to advances in manufacturing and 4 KB sectors, we finally have 2.5" hard drives with 500 GB per platter and a notebook-friendly 9.5 mm Z-height. Thanks to their high data density, even power-friendly 5400 RPM drives offer impressive transfer rates.
