In 2012, it became quite clear that Toshiba was coming back into the 3.5’ form factor hard drive business swinging as it acquired production from Hitachi, which would add Toshiba onto the list of suppliers including Seagate and western digital while making it their top priority to provide quality 3.5’ hard drives.Looking for the perfect hard drive for your server is always a difficult feat as you want to make sure it has enough memory to handle all of your enterprise needs but sturdy enough to m …

Last week I discussed a new drive that Western Digital was releasing that would come with a high capacity hard drive of 14 TB, require less power, and have an MTBF rating with 2.5M hours. A powerful hard drive, but being expanded for technology that has been around since the 50’s. Which made me wonder on why do these companies invest all their time with HDD while SSD’s having a faster boot up time, requiring less power to function, along with being able to fit in the palm of your hand. So …

In December 2017, Western Digital announced it a 14 TB, conventional magnetic recording hard drive which would be its highest capacity hard drive recording to date. Over two weeks ago, Western Digital released the HGST Ultra star DC HC530 which could store 14 TB of data with smooth, consistent readings due to its perpendicular magnetic recording and two-dimensional magnetic recording. Along with 267 MB/s sustained transfer rate that will be able to handle all of your enterprise server requ …

IoT is changing everythingIt should be noted first and foremost that IoT is changing everything. Industries, technologies, and even entire countries that don’t seem affected by this movement aren’t fully aware of the direction in which our hyper-connected digital world is going. But for now, maybe no professional industry has felt the biggest change from IoT then that of IT. From IT issues as varied as user access to server power supply, the rapid growth and depth of the IoT connectivity w …

Creating a server to meet the demands of an individual's needs can be unique. One of the central components of any such build is a hard drive, and picking the right one is a crucial construction block to every server system. SAS hard drives and SATA hard drives often find themselves in direct competition in this sense, and they both have their pros and cons. For the HP ST32000444SS 2TB SAS hard drive, the pros pile up rather quickly.Whether brand new at a mere $60.00, or refurbished and g …