Hard Disk Drives

MDD hard drives are mostly refurbished hard drives which fail a lot. We don't recommend buying these drives for your NAS.

Toshiba is a distant third in enterprise and NAS drives for internal drives, and the market is dominated by WD and Seagate, at least in the Middle East.We had Toshiba N300 NAS drives (competing with WD RED and Segate Ironwolf) and we had Toshiba MG enterprise drives...

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 Iron...

The WD Red Plus 6TB CMR with 256MB is available now under the part number WD60EFPX. The part number so far available to channel was WD...

Not too long ago, Seagate launched Mach.2 drives with dual actuators. We expected that WD (and eventually Toshiba) would have to do the same to increase the throughput of hard drives, and that's exactly what happened with the introduction of WD Dual Actutaor drives last wee...

TLDR : WD42PURZ is superior - higher recording density, higher cache and better performance Both WD40PURZ and WD42PURZ are CMR drives with 1 M Hour MTBF, 180TB/year workload and 3-year limited warranty. However WD42PURZ is ligher in weight which means it has less num...

TLDR : The difference is in the number of platters and the cache. The WD22PURZ is newer with probably 1 disc and 256MB cache. There are 2 variants of 2TB Purple drives that can be ordered for the Q4 22 channel. The difference between the two is the higher recording d...

In WD Red plus family, there are multiple variants in 4TB, 6TB, 8TB, 14TBcapacity. They are all CMR drives being RED plus but with different hardware specifications. Annual work load, warranty and MTBF etc are all the same for these models , except RPM and Cache  ( a...

As hard drive technology evolves, new products come to market and part numbers change. Seagate Exos is no exception. Part numbers change on average every 2 quarters, with some new part numbers being introduced every 6 months and some old ones being made EOL We have t...

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...