Hard Disk Drives

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.